Re: Enabling Virtual Machine support

2009-09-28 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 28 September 2009 08:17:38 am Jerry Feldman wrote: needed because, in general, performance is more critical. I'm not sure if Virtualbox supports 64-bit guests, but KVM/QEMU and VMWare certainly do. Both KVM, QEMU, and Virtualbox are released via the GPL license. I'm not sure about

Re: Linux as a NAS performance questions

2009-09-18 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 17 September 2009 06:17:39 pm H. Kurth Bemis wrote: Take a look at LogicSupply (logicsupply.com). They have a pretty good selection of compact systems. Atom based systems too. I was looking at Intel Core-based architectures and processors because I aim to use an ideal little

Linux as a NAS performance questions

2009-09-17 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
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 with lots of storage in a RAID array, made available over the gigabit network interface via Samba, NFS, and maybe iSCSI protocols. I'm curious what experience

Re: Linux as a NAS performance questions

2009-09-17 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 17 September 2009 05:59:34 pm Alan Johnson wrote: Any modern processor will be bored for these services, even if you use an encrypted and compressed file system. Single core will be plenty, but I don't know how much it will save you on power. Single-core processor: $40 (35W)

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
The last couple posts have reflected my experience as well. I use Nagios for monitoring and alerting. I use Munin for graphing and visual representation of things. I'm currently upgrading from Nagios 2 to Nagios 3 and I admit I was kinda hoping that I'd see more features in Nagios that would

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

2009-07-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Is it enough to tell the server you're using IE? I use User Agent Switcher (Firefox extension), which lets you easily change the User Agent on the fly between several pre-determined ones. I find that most sites that disallow unknown browsers work fine when I tell them it's IE or Firefox on

Re: OpenSSH vulnerability?

2009-07-10 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 09 July 2009 03:28:10 pm Dan Jenkins wrote: I'm not sure how widespread it is, but I know that ANHosting (MidPhase) is blocking it entirely. And they've got no ETA for when they'll put it back so far. I guess they're waiting for details and patches about the exploit to be

Re: OpenSSH vulnerability?

2009-07-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 09 July 2009 02:38:18 pm Ben Scott wrote: Someone perpetrated a successful DDoS attack against OpenSSH servers. Of course, the attack vector was human fears, and the technique social engineering. It's hard to patch OpenSSH against that. I'm not sure how widespread it is, but I

Re: WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN

2009-07-07 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 12:16:18 pm Drew Van Zandt wrote: Doing OpenVPN over TCP is, in my experience, human-noticeably slow in comparison to UDP; I have seen no issues with multiple machines behind the same NAT. I run my company's OpenVPN endpoint on both UDP and TCP. I send out

Asterix phone systems in a box?

2009-06-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I may soon have a need to acquire a phone system rather quickly. Is there a purchaseable asterix phone system in a box that can support 15 extensions and voicemail boxes, as well as a few shared outgoing phone lines? If the hardware exists to make it somewhat easy to support, I may just want

Re: ethernet port renumbering...

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 04 May 2009 06:31:56 pm Kevin D. Clark wrote: Bruce Labitt writes: How and where do I change stuff to reassign it to eth1? /etc/network/interfaces ? any other files? I can use the MAC. You are probably going to want to read up on udev. The file you might want to mess with

Re: mythtv and jaunty

2009-05-02 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 01 May 2009 10:02:59 pm Bruce Labitt wrote: Your problem appears to be either: A. They aren't asking for DHCP. B. The switch isn't working and those packets aren't getting to your Myth box. C. The firewall isn't as disabled as you think it is. Isn't that off? Notice that there

Re: mythtv and jaunty

2009-05-01 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 01 May 2009 09:14:14 pm Bruce Labitt wrote: Is there something obviously wrong here? What can I provide that will shed some more light on this. I'd want to see the output of: /sbin/ifconfig -a route -n That would go a long way to explaining things I suspect. Also, can you just

Re: mythtv and jaunty

2009-05-01 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 01 May 2009 09:39:11 pm Bruce Labitt wrote: $ /sbin/ifconfig -a This looked good. $ route -n This also looked good. $ sudo tcpdump -i eth1 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96

Re: Dell Studio Hybrid won't work with ViewSonic vx2235wm monitor (DVI)

2009-04-13 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 13 April 2009 08:39:32 am Greg Rundlett wrote: Because there is no signal, the monitor light is amber rather than blue. The cable is known to work with my MacBook Pro. The monitor is known to work (in Digital mode) connected to my MacBook Pro. (The monitor also works in VGA mode,

Re: Dell Studio Hybrid won't work with ViewSonic vx2235wm monitor (DVI)

2009-04-13 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 13 April 2009 11:14:47 am Greg Rundlett wrote: I never get anything. No beep, cursor, text, splash, nothing. I turn the computer on, and the screen remains black as if there is no signal to it. If I have another computer connected on the VGA port, I can toggle back and forth

Attention to folks familiar with FM transmission

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
This message isn't Linux related - I'm sorry - but I know there's a lot of contributors here who are familiar with radio transmitters and the like. Please reply off-list if you can help me out. A club I'm involved with has an interest in a small FM transmitter setup that can be used to extend

Re: Building / Buying a MythTV box

2009-03-20 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 20 March 2009 12:22:14 pm Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: I'm undecided about whether it's going to be easier/better/cheaper to run a single unit with maybe a USB external drive attached or run a front-end that is small and pretty with a backend on the rack in the basement. I do

Re: [GNHLUG] Reminder of UNIX Time event: Today, Friday 13th, 18:31:30 EST (that is about 6:30 P.M. for Microsoft users) - Marthas Please RSVP

2009-02-13 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 13 February 2009 10:25, Mark E. Mallett wrote: I only mention it so that I can post the other niffty time today: 5% date -r 1234554321 Fri Feb 13 14:45:21 EST 2009 which appeals to palindromanticists. http://www.jenandneil.com/v/Events/UnixTime/Unix+time+palindrome.png.html I got

USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Does anyone local to Billerica or the Tyngsboro/Nashua area have a USB enclosure for an IDE laptop drive that I can borrow for some disk recovery I'm trying to take care of? -Neil ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 15:45, Mark Komarinski wrote: I just found this over at slickdeals: http://www.eforcity.com/pothsata2501.html?efwebwkspban081230=pothsata2501 -Mark That is a good deal, but I'm not looking for a SATA one. That said, I've gotten good response so far and should

Books of interest?

2008-12-22 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I saw these on Craig's List and figured someone here may be interested, so I'm passing on the link. http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb/zip/966740846.html -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Apache2 conundrum - update

2008-12-17 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I think it would help if you found out what index.php code is running when you make the http://sitename/ request. Try adding something to that doesn't exist (http://sitename/doesntexist/, so that Apache's error log will show you a path to the file it can't find. Is it possible that there's a

Re: Rodents (mice)

2008-12-08 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 08 December 2008 12:05, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Of the things that I've seen mentioned so far, the back/next button features sound remotely interesting (I assume these are in the context of a browser). And I miss them when they're not there. When I'm using Konsole, I use those to

Re: Assistance with archival script

2008-11-19 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 14:21, Matt Snell wrote: find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec echo /usr/bin/7z a -t7z -mx=0 {}.7z {} \; What I want to do is prevent find from outputting . as a directory as I added a mindepth argument to your find above. That will keep it from

Server issues baffling me...

2008-10-22 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I'm hoping someone can say they recognize this and that if I press 'Alt-p' or something, it will all go away. I am not that optimistic, but I figured it's worth a try. I have a server that I can turn on in our office, plugged into the wall, and it will work fine for days, weeks, whatever. I

Re: Old rackmount equipment?

2008-10-20 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I've got two things you're free to take off my hands: 1. 1U Cobalt RaQ3i with a bad power supply. I have another with a good power supply you can borrow, but I'll want to get that one back. 2. 2U Synaptic Managed Hub (16 ports of 10Mbps fury, yes I said Hub, not switch) Let me know. The

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Minicom can work pretty well if you just set your profile to 9600 and the right serial port. Then, I just alias minicom to 'minicom -o' to keep it from initializing my modem when I run it. Then you just have to make sure all your serial devices are set to 9600 and be consistent there. From a

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 17:35, Alan Johnson wrote: Yeah, those are nice, but all our stuff is collocated with servers that already have serial ports, so it seems kind of silly to spend the money for 3-4 serial consoles when 10-20 servers/serial-ports are already sitting right there. =)

Re: iptables

2008-09-22 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 22 September 2008 10:06, Labitt, Bruce wrote: I am trying to configure my firewall at work. I need to have an internal trusted network (my number-cruncher) and everything else. The trusted network is on eth0, and the other is on eth1. How do I set this up? IIRC I had this setup

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

2008-09-18 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:48, Bruce Labitt wrote: Can one use apt with Ubuntu? Does that get one out of most of dependency hell? I thought apt was similar (I believe many say even better) to yum and yast. Dependency hell in a Debian system largely would come from using packages

Re: Ubuntu

2008-09-18 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 18 September 2008 11:33, Bruce Labitt wrote: Seriously, now. Why Ubuntu vs straight Debian? Ubuntu has worked at making the average-user experience easier, is that it? I think that's it. I run Debian Stable as my desktop/laptop OS of choice. It's outdated, but I pull a few

Re: UPS disposal options?

2008-09-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
RST Recycling in Hudson, NH is where I'd go. They accept lead-acid batteries with a per-pound fee for disposal and all electronics are free. It shouldn't cost you too much. -N On Sunday 14 September 2008 19:51, Peter Dobratz wrote: I've got a PK Electronics BlackoutBuster (500VA UPS) with a

Re: nslookup alpine-usa.com

2008-09-10 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 07:39, Frank DiPrete wrote: I am not getting a response while trying to lookup alpine-usa.com As others have pointed out, there is no alpine-usa.com. There is www.alpine-usa.com (and maybe other subdomains), but alpine-usa.com is not defined. All three

Re: Linux network behavior wierdness

2008-09-05 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 05 September 2008 14:26, Paul Lussier wrote: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Watch out for /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts. The default was changed between 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 to ignore by default. Ooh, I didn't know that, thanks! Fascinating, so how does

Re: cloning a desktop to a notebook

2008-08-27 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 15:36, Greg Rundlett wrote: I *assumed* that apt-get had a -f option to designate a file to read package names from it does not. So, a working equivalent to what I intended to have happen would be sudo apt-get install `cat package-list.txt` Yeah, apt-get -f

Re: Booting NOT-Windows

2008-08-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 20:13, Bill McGonigle wrote: So, one thing I like to do is to create a disk image of the damaged disk before trying anything else. That way you can go back if 'recovery' attempts do more damage than good. This is largely a question of what your data is worth and

Re: (OT) Laptop Repair

2008-08-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
eBay is where I go when I have laptop problems. I just buy another laptop that ideally is broken enough to be cheap, but has the parts I need in good shape. eBay has lots of results right now if you search for Dell Inspiron 5100. -N On Thursday 21 August 2008 10:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Booting NOT-Windows

2008-08-20 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 14:33, Coleman Kane wrote: You may want to look into KNOPPIX: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html Seconded. There's also a tool out there called the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (http://www.ubcd4win.com) that you can build. It's not straightforward how

Re: not good news for ODF :(

2008-08-18 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 18 August 2008 11:20, Michael Pelletier wrote: With OOXML an ISO standard, it should now be possible to write an editor that is absolutely 100% compatible with Office 2007 documents, with no pesky compatability or rendering quirks, right? Should be possible, but it's not. The

Re: Free Runner Phone

2008-08-14 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 14 August 2008 14:30, Bruce Labitt wrote: Anyone using / playing with a Freerunner Phone? Opinions? Cool? Stinks? Not ready? I've got one. I like playing with it so far. Ready depends on your target audience I guess. I'm not using it as a phone, but I hope to within the year.

OpenMoko Freerunner

2008-07-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I just took delivery of my new OpenMoko Freerunner and thought I'd share. I'm really excited to play with it, but alas, I still have to complete my workday. -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: OpenMoko Freerunner

2008-07-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
July 2008 12:59, Travis Roy wrote: I saw some of the first videos of it and I was very unimpressed: http://www.vimeo.com/1366042?pg=embedsec=1366042 On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just took delivery of my new OpenMoko Freerunner and thought

Re: Netgear now touting open source WRT-compatible wireless router

2008-07-03 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 03 July 2008 15:15, John Abreau wrote: On Thu, July 3, 2008 1:18 pm, Drew Van Zandt said: Minor warning: OpenVPN is configured NOT to check for revoked certificates by default. (Default install on Debian, anyway, and I suspect it's similar elsewhere.) Not likely a big deal

Re: [HUMOR] $500 patch cable

2008-06-23 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Sunday 22 June 2008 18:29, Michael ODonnell wrote: I guess those $500 cables are OK if you're on a budget, but us true audiophiles know these $7899.95 beauties are the ones to have: http://www.wildwestelectronics.net/g-oval-10-10.html Honestly that doesn't seem so bad. At least that's

Re: need Openvpn routing help

2008-06-13 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
This doesn't sound like an OpenVPN thing at all. Does MachineB know that it's supposed to route traffic between it's 10.8.0/24 network and it's 10.10.0/24 network? If it knows that much, then OpenVPN doesn't have to be involved at all and you just add the route as you specified. -N On Friday

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-12 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 12 June 2008 00:13, Arc Riley wrote: Are you speaking from actual experience or are you confusing fglrx with DRI? I have not found a card listed as supported on DRI's website that didn't work. In what situation did you find the free drivers not working on cards listed as

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-12 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 12 June 2008 08:22, Arc Riley wrote: Radeon 7000 is r100, that's 7-8 years old and I'm not at all surprised that video overlays are a problem on it. I think someone else already made a comment about the commonality of replacing a video card. I don't pay that much attention these

Re: Some library and packaging advice please?

2008-05-29 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 21:24, Ben Scott wrote: According to the Kolab web site, they've got their own binary packages available for Debian 3.1. Have you tried those? Or is that not the Debian release you're using? I can't get their Debian-pre-compiled ones to install - the install script

Some library and packaging advice please?

2008-05-28 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I'm trying to build a Kolab server for use at work and running into some problems. I'm hoping someone here has some expertise that they can offer to help me resolve some issues I'm having, especially if you've used Kolab or other software packages distributed with OpenPKG before. The

Re: Some library and packaging advice please?

2008-05-28 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 19:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For all our servers, we have LDAP logins enabled for SSH logins, monitoring Do you mean in PAM or SSH? Both? PAM and NSS. Here's my explanation of what's happening. When you start a process, glibc is loaded as part of that

Re: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 15 May 2008 09:58, kenta wrote: I ended up with the following config... Bind ssh to two ports: 22 and a non standard port In my firewall rules I specifically allow certain IP's to connect to port 22. These include my internal network (192.168) and a handful of IP's from other

Re: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 15 May 2008 11:17, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:58 AM, kenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bind ssh to two ports: 22 and a non standard port In my firewall rules I specifically allow certain IP's to connect to port 22. One variant of that strategy is to run the real

Re: Thoughts on the OpenMoko Project?

2008-05-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 09 May 2008 08:33, David Samson wrote: Anybody have any thoughts on this open source project, OpenMoko? I recently heard about it. They seem to be trying to recreate the development stack for cellular phones and PDA's but on an open source format. here is a link to their site if

Re: Thoughts on the OpenMoko Project?

2008-05-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 09 May 2008 09:05, Chip Marshall wrote: Unfortunately, I don't think OpenMoko will catch on. It's going to be competeing with Google's Android platform, which is getting a lot more buzz, simply because it's Google. Isn't Android just a software platform though? Maybe I've misread.

Re: Palm vs other smart phones/PDAs

2008-05-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 09 May 2008 09:07, Tom Buskey wrote: IMO, the original Palm UI and apps still hold up very well. I've been using Palm with Unix since I got a Pilot 1000. I have a Blackberry for work and my wife uses an iPhone. That is true - I've been using Palms for nearly a decade now and

Re: Palm vs other smart phones/PDAs

2008-05-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 09 May 2008 11:28, Mark Komarinski wrote: On 05/09/2008 11:18 AM, Coleman Kane wrote: I've got a Treo 680 and I've liked it pretty well. Occasionally it resets itself (like acouple times per month), but not the kind of reset where it loses all data, it just reboots. I got it

Re: Palm vs other smart phones/PDAs

2008-05-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 09 May 2008 19:33, Tom Buskey wrote: Well, try finding WiFi in a Palm. Or any smartphone. iPhone has one that's a nice boost in speed. I'm not sure how useful SSH or other net apps on the Palm are w/o a wireless network, SSH is the most used thing on my Palm after the

Re: Anti-backscatter methods (was: Anti-spam methods)

2008-05-07 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 15:30, Chip Marshall wrote: The main problem is that all valid outgoing e-mail for your domain has to go out through a relay that you control, in order to have the appropriate BATV tags placed in the sender address. Another problem with BATV is that it will interfere

Looking for terminals?

2008-05-06 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Wasn't someone looking for a terminal a few weeks ago? http://nh.craigslist.org/zip/669972967.html This sounds promising, if so. -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Spam-Filter-Free Options (Was: Computer repair shop)

2008-05-06 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 14:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spam filters are a bad idea for one very simple reason: THEY DON'T WORK. The don't work, because they CAN'T work, because the approach is flawed. Until we can write programs capable of passing the Turing test, spam filters are destined

reading old tapes

2008-04-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I've got a pile of old Travan tapes at work with unknown contents. Before I retire our last machine with a Travan drive, I'm trying to make an honest effort at recovering any potential data on these tapes so that I can figure out if there's anything valuable on them. I can use dd to read the

Re: Spam and extra MX records + cool dual-db setup

2008-04-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Saturday 19 April 2008 07:44, Lloyd Kvam wrote: Was there any reason for not using the MySQL replication feature to copy from the writeable database to the read-only database? I rely on replication mostly for off-site backup, but I've read of people splitting databases as you have done for

Re: Spam and extra MX records

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Thanks for everyone's responses here. I wanted to reply with some responses after having a chance to review everyone's ideas. I was told by a few people to use a proper blacklist I'm not sure how this was related - I wasn't asking about blacklists and I never meant to suggest that this would

Re: Spam and extra MX records + cool dual-db setup

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 18 April 2008 09:59, Lloyd Kvam wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:38 -0400, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: I've resolved the performance problems with a really cool dual-db setup I came up with that's giving me awesome performance. That piques my interest. Is it an update server

Spam and extra MX records

2008-04-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Not linux-specific persay, but mail and DNS servers can and do run in Linux, so I figure I'm more on-topic than usual. I'm curious what opinions others have, especially negative about a strategy to prevent spam from coming into your mail server. I've read a couple suggestions which make a

Re: VPNs and DNS (was: SSH tunnel question)

2008-02-29 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 29 February 2008 10:38, Jarod Wilson wrote: The only gotcha is that if you have lan-local-dns (i.e., dns records only available inside your private network), you probably won't be able to access stuff via dns names, without some craftiness (can be done with some local nameserver

Re: SSH tunnel question

2008-02-28 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 28 February 2008 08:27, Tom Buskey wrote: There are advantages to both VPN and SSH. The VPN would direct all traffic to the host network. The client's local network wouldn't be available. I like this when my users are in a Starbucks somewhere. They turn the VPN on now only get

Re: SSH tunnel question

2008-02-27 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 11:56, Steven W. Orr wrote: Sometimes I just get lucky here. :-) I'd like to establish a tunnel from work to home so that if I wanted to I can then get access from home. I'm thinking that ssh has this capability but i never learned how to do it. Does anyone know

Re: SSH tunnel question

2008-02-27 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 21:25, Ben Scott wrote: Assuming that the OP is only interested in SSH'ing into his work PC -- which is, after all, what he asked for -- is OpenVPN really better? I didn't interpret the OP's question that he wanted to SSH into the remote machine. I interpreted

Re: Dead APC

2008-02-24 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I take electronics to RST Recycling in Hudson, NH. They are free for all general electronics and charge very small fees for hazardous materials (like CRTs, lead batteries, etc). -N On Saturday 23 February 2008 12:59, Dan Miller wrote: I have a completely dead APC. Battery was dead before it

Re: Negroponte, OLPC, AAAS, obese electronics

2008-02-19 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 15:20, Ben Scott wrote: They don't make it more complex, expensive, or any of that. They do indeed make it more complex. I disagree. I have been using nothing but a cell phone for almost a decade now. It's a rare thing when I'm out of service and pick up a

Re: OT: Looking for styrofoam packing (Nashua)

2008-02-12 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I've got a decent amount of boxes/packing/styrofoam of various sorts at my home in Nashua. If you want to stop by between 4:00 and 5:30 or so, I'll be home and you're free to peruse through to find anything you want. -N On Tuesday 12 February 2008 08:34, kenta wrote: I have a fairly large

Re: Small business backups solutions?

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 13:14, Alex Hewitt wrote: overnight and when they come to work they run a small script which transfers the backup to the removable hard drive. They take it with them when they leave at the end of the day. These drives although reasonably rugged can't take a drop

Re: Anybody familiar with VMWare tuning?

2008-01-22 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I'm not familiar with VMWare tuning at all, so perhaps I just shouldn't respond. But, you didn't mention memory. I do run a Windows guest under Xen, as well as a number of Linux hosts. I find that they all run really well on even cheap hardware and that the processor isn't nearly as

10mb managed hub anyone?

2008-01-14 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Can I interest anyone in a 10mbps rackmount managed hub? It's going to the recyclers if I don't find it a home, though I can't imagine it belongs anywhere but in a museum. It's a SynOptics LattisHub 2813 and was probably very expensive when they were discovering the difference between

Re: Free Hardware

2007-11-20 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 20:42, Jarod Wilson wrote: 1) IBM Netfinity 4000R. I have a couple of these and can always use parts. I'm in Tyngsboro too. 2) Dell PowerEdge 2300. Beefy dual P3/600 server machine with 1.5GB 3) Generic 2U half-depth rack-mount (was actually an F5 load-balancer I'm

Re: Stumbling block on road to going Linux-only, the dvdrw is very odd.

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
One troubleshooting mechanism I'd give a shot... Have you tried booting up with a Knoppix or Ubuntu or some other liveCD distro? At least then, you can boot up and see if your DVD drive works there and identify to start whether it's a legitimate hardware issue or just some issue with the

Re: verizon DNS helper

2007-11-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 23:40, Chip Marshall wrote: On November 14, 2007, Ben Scott sent me the following: I suggest just running your own caching resolver (ISC BIND named, tinydns, whatever) and bypassing the ISP's mess entirely. Probably doable for now, but there's nothing

Re: can't telnet out port 25

2007-11-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 15 November 2007 12:06, Charlie Farinella wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2007, Ben Scott wrote:   What happens when you try?  Do you get an error message?  Does it just sit forever waiting to connect? # telnet mail.appropriatesolutions.com 25 Trying 63.131.36.2... telnet:

Re: Laptop Key Problem

2007-11-13 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 10:49, Paul Lussier wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh. Sorry, I forgot not everybody is going to have a bunch of floppies full of old software. :-) What? So, what do people keep at the back of all their closets? What do you do with all that

Re: A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

2007-11-12 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 12 November 2007 10:50, Steven W. Orr wrote: This disturbs me. I hear great things about Ubuntu, but AFAICT, Fedora is the best and most cutting edge distro AND it's RPM based. I'm sorry, but I have no desire to move to a deb based system. If I was to contemplate a different distro,

Re: Power supply monitoring in Linux?

2007-11-07 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 10:54, Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, Is anyone aware of means to monitor power supplies under Linux? I have systems which have dual-redundant power supplies and I'd like to monitor them for possible failures so I can send an alert, set a trap, etc. My Penguin

Re: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 10:43, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: I think I've settled on the DRBD method. Using a network block device and failing back and forth using heartbeat and a floating ip, though log shipping seems pretty straightforward. Does anyone have any positive or negative feedback

Re: Admin horror stories (was: Shell Quoting)

2007-10-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 17:31, Ben Scott wrote: On 10/9/07, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I looked in /bin for suspicious files, and that was the first time I ever noticed the file [ . It looked suspicious, so of course I deleted it. :-/ Did you know 'rpm' will let you

Re: LDAP Authentication (related to Re: XEN - unbind/bind a PCI device)

2007-09-25 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:40, Mark Komarinski wrote: So I guess the question is: are you doing LDAP authentication on any of your networks, and if so, how are you managing it? Or are there any alternate authentication schemes I should be looking at? I use a combination of two things.

Re: [semi-OT] Review: Comcast Workplace cable Internet

2007-09-12 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:23, Ben Scott wrote: Oh. I see your point now. :) Bandwidth that is good, fast, *and* cheap. Definitely a sort of holy grail. And equally elusive, I would say. But in this case, even picking 2 doesn't work. The uptime SLAs aren't as important to us.

Re: [semi-OT] Review: Comcast Workplace cable Internet

2007-09-10 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 10 September 2007 15:56, Ben Scott wrote: Like I said: Cheap, disposable bandwidth. The speed really is quite impressive for the price. Getting an SLA feed with a committed rate of 12 megabit/sec from a real ISP would easily cost us over $1000 per month. I wouldn't rely on it

Re: [semi-OT] Review: Comcast Workplace cable Internet

2007-09-10 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 10 September 2007 16:44, Ben Scott wrote: On 9/10/07, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where could you get anywhere close to 12mbps for anywhere close to $1000/month? Like I said, over $1000 month. The key word being over. I didn't say *how much* over. ;-) snip

Re: Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

2007-09-05 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 09:38, Tom Buskey wrote: It's one reason I have TiVo. Stability at a cost of $xx.xx per month. I was a little concerned about upgrading as I've been using an old version of KnoppMyth based on .15 or something that I built probably over 2 years ago. That said, I

Re: O'Reilly Ignite event in Boston, Thurs, Sept 6

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I've been saving this email trying to see if new information was posted about it yet, but so far, there hasn't been much. Anyway, this event sounds great except that I don't know what it is. ;-) Was anyone at the last event or know what's to be expected at the next event? Does anyone know if

Re: [OT] Charging UPS batteries outside the UPS

2007-08-07 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 06 August 2007 22:10, Ben Scott wrote: Now, I don't want to have to spend $350 on a replacement battery only to find out that it's the UPS itself that's shot. For what it's worth, APC.com lists their replacement batteries for $280 for an SU3000RM3U. I've had bad luck with

OT: Anyone have any spare hard drives?

2007-07-19 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I'm looking for a 30-60GB hard drive to replace a failed drive in a Win98 box. Since Win98 doesn't like 64+GB drives and stores don't really stock too many smaller ones these days, I'm looking for a drive in good shape that I can buy from someone who may have a pile of them. Anyone? -N

Re: OT: Anyone have any spare hard drives?

2007-07-19 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
:20, you wrote: I ought to have a couple of 40's or 60's around somewhere that worked fine when I pulled them - if I can find them this weekend you can have them. --DTVZ On 7/19/07, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a 30-60GB hard drive to replace a failed drive

Re: (OT) Does anyone use FOSS Virus Scan?

2007-07-19 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 19 July 2007 09:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone have experience with Open Source Virus Scan? I use ClamAV on mail servers and deploy ClamWin to Windows users. The biggest drawback and/or advantage to ClamWin is that it does not do on-access scanning, like most of the

Re: OT: Anyone have any spare hard drives?

2007-07-19 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Thursday 19 July 2007 08:54, Ben Scott wrote: On 7/19/07, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a 30-60GB hard drive to replace a failed drive in a Win98 box. Since Win98 doesn't like 64+GB drives ... I can't be sure (it's been awhile since I had to deal

Re: A little Microsoft humor...

2007-05-18 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Friday 18 May 2007 15:39, Paul Lussier wrote: I thought the /. story entitled Broadband isn't Broadband Unless its 2Mbps? was more interesting, since you were actually mentioned as having weighed in on the debate: Larry Cohen, president of the Communication Workers of America,

Re: Package management

2007-05-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:04, Charlie Farinella wrote: How does everyone else do this? In the Debian world, at least, I generally follow this order of precedence. 1. If it's outside the distro availability, I look to upgrading. In this case, Python 2.3.4 is pretty outdated, so I'm assuming

Re: Package management

2007-05-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:34, Paul Lussier wrote: Bah! $ apt-get source foo=desired package number $ cd foo-version number $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot $ cd .. dpkg -i foo-version number This will compile the source for whatever version of the debian package foo you need against

Re: Package management

2007-05-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:12, Charlie Farinella wrote: Just to be clear, my question only uses CentOS/Python as an example and is not the precise problem I want to solve. I want to pick a distro/procedure and stick to it based on solving this kind of problem. Thanks for the feedback. :-)

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