Re: Poll on GNHLUG meetings/topics/etc.

2014-06-19 Thread VirginSnow
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: Paul Beaudet is running a poll for the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group, to try and gauge interest in meetings, topics, activities, etc. Please feel free to contribute your opinion. I would be interested in seeing a survey that's not hosted on

Linux-friendly USB 802.11n

2014-03-16 Thread VirginSnow
Hello, all, I'm looking for a Linux-friendly 802.11n (Wireless N) USB adapter. By Linux-friendly, I mean I'm looking for one that will work with in-kernel drivers (no separate module to compile install), without funky compatability layers (like NDIS wrapper), doesn't require extra firmware, and

Most WiFi broken??

2013-11-28 Thread VirginSnow
Hello, I'm having trouble accessing lots of public WiFi, and am hoping someone here could help. I'm using a WPC54G Linksys G CardBus (32-bit PCMCIA) card on a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. The problem I'm having is that I cannot associate with most access points. iwconfig reports not

Linux advocacy opportunity: Next generation 911 in NH

2010-07-06 Thread VirginSnow
According to a recent Associated Press article, our insightful(?) leaders are contemplating upgrading New Hampshire's 911 system to accept multimedia such as text messages, photos, etc. They're requesting $4 million dollars for this... most of it for software(!) Does anybody see a great

Re: E-mail is now reproducing in the wild?

2010-06-28 Thread VirginSnow
virgins...@vfemail.net writes: The duplicate messages that I've analyzed all appear to originate in webmail interfaces. Some duplicates (those from Yahoo, it seems) have identical Message-ID headers, but other duplicate messages have different Message-IDs. The duplicate messages from @gmail

E-mail is now reproducing in the wild?

2010-06-25 Thread VirginSnow
Hi, all. I've been receiving a lot of duplicate e-mail messages over the past few weeks. (Not on this list, that I've noticed, but elsewhere.) Has anyone else experienced this? Anyone have an explanation for it? The duplicate messages that I've analyzed all appear to originate in webmail

OT: Looking for degausser/magnetic tape eraser

2009-09-28 Thread VirginSnow
This isn't Linux-specific, but I figured I'd try asking here... I'm looking for a degausser/magnetic tape eraser for erasing mini DV tapes. I've tried all the local stores (RadioShack, BestBuy, even a TV/VCR repair shop), as well as Allied Electronics and Digikey, but none of them seem to sell

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

2009-08-27 Thread VirginSnow
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: Is there some trick (maybe some kernel commandline option or some program executed during shutdown) that will leave the drive willing to eject the media (unlock it?) without us having to power-cycle these machines? Take a look at hdparm

Re: Listen to your log files

2009-08-19 Thread VirginSnow
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: I believe a good product for sysadmins would be SmellTrouble(TM), where systems that are in good shape would generate smells like chocolate, soda or good coffee, and systems that are in bad shape would generate smells likewell you could have your

Re: OpenSSH vulnerability?

2009-07-08 Thread VirginSnow
Neil Schelly n...@jenandneil.com writes: I guess I'm just out of the underground loop for security exploits. You can find out a lot of the latest and greatest such stuff by hanging out on #crypto. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

WRT used to steal the declaration of independence?

2009-07-07 Thread VirginSnow
I don't know if y'all have seen the film National Treasure. (WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILER!) But in the movie, when they're trying to steal the declaration of independence there's a shot of them using a hacked Linksys router. The shot is very brief, but it is definitely a Linksys. My guess is that

Tool to automatically update symlinks when moving files

2009-07-01 Thread VirginSnow
Does anyone know of a tool that can automatically update symbolic links when moving files around on a filesystem, so as to maintain symlink consistency? For example: /off/the/cuff/example/cake # regular file /off/the/cuff/example/coffee - ../../../handle/drink /off/the/handle/drink # regular

Re: iptables out of memory?

2009-06-23 Thread VirginSnow
In message 155dc4110906211101h3c686132t1faca1445cca...@mail.gmail.com, Ben Scott writes: ... iptables ... rules ... the number rarely exceeds 5 digits That's still a heaping huge pile of rules. :) Or have your MTA drop TCP connects on open, based on RBL DNS lookups. While any given

SATA DVD WAS: Re: SATA hot swap

2009-06-23 Thread VirginSnow
In message 4a397644.40...@bfccomputing.com, Bill McGonigle writes: Yeah, ICH for disk is very good. I'm currently fighting an ICH10 for SATA DVD, though, but that might not be its fault (BIOS, linux, dunno). I have found that, sometimes, a modprobe libata atapi_enabled=1 is needed to detect

Re: iptables out of memory?

2009-06-22 Thread VirginSnow
In message 155dc4110906211101h3c686132t1faca1445cca...@mail.gmail.com, Ben Scott writes: ... iptables ... rules ... the number rarely exceeds 5 digits That's still a heaping huge pile of rules. :) Or have your MTA drop TCP connects on open, based on RBL DNS lookups. While any given

Re: iptables out of memory?

2009-06-22 Thread VirginSnow
In message 155dc4110906211101h3c686132t1faca1445cca...@mail.gmail.com, Ben Scott writes: ... iptables ... rules ... the number rarely exceeds 5 digits That's still a heaping huge pile of rules. :) Or have your MTA drop TCP connects on open, based on RBL DNS lookups. While any given

Re: iptables out of memory?

2009-06-22 Thread VirginSnow
In message 155dc4110906211101h3c686132t1faca1445cca...@mail.gmail.com, Ben Scott writes: ... iptables ... rules ... the number rarely exceeds 5 digits That's still a heaping huge pile of rules. :) Or have your MTA drop TCP connects on open, based on RBL DNS lookups. While any given

Re: scripting, no-op statements in bash function (was: SATA hot swap)

2009-06-10 Thread VirginSnow
In message 20090610153306.88be3918...@c-98-216-200-60.hsd1.ma.comcast.net, Michael ODonnell writes: I had a look at /sbin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh - it's not the most elegant One thing I noticed was that some of the functions in that script are constructed thus: funcName () {

Re: scripting, no-op statements in bash function (was: SATA hot swap)

2009-06-10 Thread VirginSnow
virgins...@vfemail.net writes: In message 20090610153306.88be3918...@c-98-216-200-60.hsd1.ma.comcast.net, Michael ODonnell writes: I had a look at /sbin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh - it's not the most elegant One thing I noticed was that some of the functions in that script are constructed

Re: Linux-compatible scanner with ADF

2009-06-08 Thread VirginSnow
In message sjm7hzmn5rs@pgpdev.ihtfp.org, Derek Atkins writes: If anyone knows where I could find a scanner with ADF supported by SANE, for a SANE price (ha ha), I would much appreciate any pointers! I have an HP All-in-One and it works great. Does your scanner have an ADF? Is it

Linux-compatible scanner with ADF

2009-06-05 Thread VirginSnow
Greetings, I'm looking for a Linux-compatible color scanner with automatic document feeder (ADF). (That's the tray you put a stack of papers in when scanning multiple documents at once.) I've consulted the usual suspects: newegg, ebay, staples, best buy... even juggernauts like target. Alas,

Re: Linux-compatible scanner with ADF

2009-06-05 Thread VirginSnow
In message 41e1cb840906050802p74caa7f4h17cf36b0fd984...@mail.gmail.com, Tom B uskey writes: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:25 AM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: I'm looking for a Linux-compatible color scanner with automatic document feeder (ADF). I've heard good things about the ScanSnaps

Re: I have S/MIME vs GPG questions.

2009-06-01 Thread VirginSnow
In message alpine.lfd.2.00.0906011224050.4...@saturn.syslang.net, Steven W. Orr writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some of this is technical and some clearly fluctuates between ranting and a political perspective. ...welcome to GNHLUG-discuss. ;) * What are the pros

Re: [OT] DTV switch-over (was: Mythtv users + Comcast subscribers)

2009-05-29 Thread VirginSnow
In message 51ab7d3a-d3ee-49db-b44f-70bca4f1b...@wilsonet.com, Jarod Wilson wr ites: thereby requiring subscribers to rent more cable boxes... You got it. Selling less and charging more for it has been this company's mantra since... well, when did they become Comcast? Last June (almost 1 year

Re: How to use gpg-agent

2009-05-06 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:29:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net One of the points of the agent is to cache passphrases so we don't have to type it in for every message. The theory behind that is that each time we type a passphrase in, we expose the passphrase to possible

searching/grepping for words near each other

2009-04-30 Thread VirginSnow
OK, I know we have a few grep gurus on this list... I want to search a text file for a few (alphabetic) words which must be near each other, but not necessarily on the same line. Near could be defined however you like... within a certain number of words from each other, a certain number of

Re: searching/grepping for words near each other

2009-04-30 Thread VirginSnow
From: kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) Date: 30 Apr 2009 12:02:19 -0400 I want to search a text file for a few (alphabetic) words which must be near each other, but not necessarily on the same line. Near could be defined however you like... within a certain number of words

Re: OT: Employment Security Options

2009-04-17 Thread VirginSnow
From: Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:32:56 -0400 My wife made a suggestion that seldom gets discussed, guilds. The medieval guilds established several tough-to-reach competence grades for their members, spanning apprentice to journeyman to master. They

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:08:46 -0400 From: Ed lawson elaw...@grizzy.com Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org believe police officers increasingly feel empowered to take very suspect if not unlawful actions simply by reason of their position of authority and for

Keeping private data private WAS: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread VirginSnow
From: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:27:45 -0400 On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: ... we can encrypt anything that might be incriminating ... http://xkcd.com/538/ Heh. I was half expecting to find a NSFW cartoon involving rubber

Re: Troubleshooting smtp(?)

2009-04-15 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:43:57 -0400 From: Curtis Sandoval curtis.sando...@gmail.com Cc: gnhlug-disc...@gnhlug.org I've run into an odd problem. I've been running python (2.5) scripts on a Linux box (Suse 10.2) for probably two years through cron. These scripts email me using python's

Re: Out of memory while booting? update

2009-04-06 Thread VirginSnow
From: Charles G Montgomery c...@physics.utoledo.edu Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:13:19 -0400 Booting single-user fails in the same way as a regular boot. I can get a shell with init=/bin/sh. I was hoping, from the shell, you would be able to run /usr/bin/free or mount /proc and cat /proc/meminfo

Meaning of GNU find options: -mtime, -ctime, -atime

2009-04-02 Thread VirginSnow
A question was raised recently on the list about the exact meaning of arguments to GNU find's -mtime test. While I've been able to get by for years without understanding the exact semantics, I decided was for me to dig in and learn how exactly this works. Here's what I found (no pun intended).

Re: Out of memory while booting?

2009-04-01 Thread VirginSnow
From: Charles G Montgomery c...@physics.utoledo.edu Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:59:00 -0400 The machine has an AMD 64 cpu, 2 GB memory, an ASUS A8V-XE motherboard. I run Debian testing (currently squeeze). Booting starts normally and proceeds quite a way. It gets as far as loading kernel

Re: Cinelerra, high def MPEG from TiVo, slicing out a clip, creating DVD and portable versions

2009-03-29 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:18:24 -0400 From: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com *sigh* video on Linux can be so frustrating sometimes. ffmpeg -acodec copy -vcodec copy -itsoffset -00:04:40 -i full.mpeg -ss 00:04:40 -t 00:03:00 clip.mpeg That yielded video from the wrong part of the

Re: Cinelerra, high def MPEG from TiVo, slicing out a clip, creating DVD and portable versions

2009-03-27 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:36:12 -0400 From: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com SCENARIO I have a one hour, high-definition news program, recorded on my TiVo Series 3. It is roughly 8 GB in size. I want to extract a short segment from that file -- maybe 5 minutes. I then want to do two

Re: Cinelerra, high def MPEG from TiVo, slicing out a clip, creating DVD and portable versions

2009-03-27 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:17:16 GMT From: virgins...@vfemail.net Oops, I just noticed a mistake in my post... -ovc means output video codec, -oac means output video codec, -oac means output audio codec Also... $ ffmpeg -acodec copy -vcodec copy -i infile -itsoffset -00:10:09.5 -ss

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:54:19 -0400 From: Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net wrote: Why are you using Cygwin's Python? Why not? Because

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:13:11 -0400 From: Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com Unless you're involved in the Python community under yet another monkier, why the hell are you even replying on this thread, much less arguing against me re: Py3? Simply stated, I'm tired of listening to your claims

Re: DSL Alternatives to Fairpoint?

2009-03-13 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:53:29 -0400 From: Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com Although I know many of you like MV, I prefer to say away from them. I did a rather thorough search, in late 2007, for ISPs which didn't $u|K (cable, DSL, dialup... anything). MV was the *only* decent ISP I was able to

Re: find mtime not the same as ls mtime?

2009-03-13 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:36:39 -0400 From: Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name find . -mtime 60 Doesn't mtime's arg mean that many days ago? So you're asking find to mention files 60 days old, I think. Is that what you intended? I actually should have said, So you're asking find to

Re: FYI: The Unix philosophy

2009-03-09 Thread VirginSnow
From: kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) Date: 09 Mar 2009 12:29:19 -0400 I think the need for AWK/Sed crib sheets argues that the tools we've traditionally used for piping text might benefit from some fresh insights. I use crib sheets for various things, actually. My tiny

Re: USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:21:45 -0500 From: Brian Chabot br...@datasquire.net I recently got a (rather nice otherwise) sound recorder that connects via USB to a computer. Does it play back as well as record? If so, do the recordings sound correct when played directly from the device?

MIDI port vs MIDI Synthesizer (a.k.a. How NOT to play MIDI files!)

2009-03-02 Thread VirginSnow
I just solved a really annoying Linux problem yesterday. I'm posting here in hopes that this will save someone else from having to go through the same amount of trouble... It all started when I downloaded a MIDI file and wanted to play it. :) I installed a small MIDI player called playmidi.

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-03-01 Thread VirginSnow
From: Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:54:44 -0500 Cc: gnhlug-disc...@gnhlug.org Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com writes: OK. I'll ask the obvious next question - where did this 'ledger' command come from? Err, apt-get install ledger ? Though I tend to

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-17 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:06:03 -0400 From: Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com Hmmm. Maybe its time to have a presentation on GNUCash? Seems there have been lots of changes since I last looked at it! I seem to remember Rob Anderson doing a presentation on Gnucash at one of the SLUG meetings a

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-16 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:45:25 -0500 From: Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org GNUCash is not really an accounting system. Others have listed several.=20 Oh, really?! Now that you mention it, you're right. It's funy how I've contributed code to Gnucash and never noticed that it wasn't an accounting

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-16 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:49:38 -0400 From: Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com CC: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org How is Gnucash not an accounting system? GNUCash is/was more of a bookkeeping system than an accounting system. Accounting systems usually have something akin to a

OT: International Homographs WAS: Re: Linux taking over

2009-02-13 Thread VirginSnow
From: Cole Tuininga co...@code-energy.com Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:21:28 -0500 Imagine a car company in the US marketing a vehicle called the Nogo. I doubt it would get out of that lightly. The English language example which the snopes entry uses is the hypothetical brand name Notable,

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-13 Thread VirginSnow
From: Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:29:27 -0500 I could not find any adequate business accounting packages for Linux. IIRC, this has been discussed previously on this list. Have you tried searching the list archives? I haven't. And I don't remember if I've babbled

Re: :-) Please use [OT] for Re: FYI: The Unix philosophy

2009-02-10 Thread VirginSnow
From: jk...@kinz.org Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:12:02 -0500 From _The UNIX Philosophy_ by Mike Gancarz (a member of original X window system team): Universal: 1. Small is beautiful. 2. Make each program do one thing well. 3. Build a prototype as soon as possible. 4.

Re: Odd log messages from ISC BIND named

2009-02-04 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:45:17 -0500 From: Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org WHAT Cryptosystem? How do you jump from '100 oddball DNS requests' to 'cryptosystem'? Have you been following the known plaintext attack thread? If not, please reread. You

Re: Logic in list messages WAS: Re: Odd log messages from ISC BIND named

2009-02-04 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:15:26 -0500 From: Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org The entire purpose for the attack potentials you meantioned would have NOTHING to do with attacking liberty. Correct. To break it down, the sort of attack you are infering

Re: Odd log messages from ISC BIND named

2009-02-03 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:52:01 -0500 From: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:08 PM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: But judging by the differences between the queries, this is more likely a known-plaintext attack on a WEP, a VPN, or similar. Okay, I might buy

Re: Odd log messages from ISC BIND named

2009-02-03 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:58:51 -0500 From: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:29 PM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: Okay, I might buy that, but what's it doing on our DNS server? If the payload space being searched included the destination IP field, the destination

Re: Time for Linux is Lining up

2009-02-01 Thread VirginSnow
From: Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:15:18 -0500 Cc: Henry Hall h...@att.net At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at this momentous second? - from Bell Labs This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30

Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

2009-02-01 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:46:31 -0500 From: Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com I'm tired of hearing people in the free software community whine about Facebook. There are a lot of programmers on this list. If you feel passionately enough about this to complain then let's build an alternative. I

Re: Bots don't honor 301 :(

2009-01-13 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:27:27 -0500 From: David Berube djber...@berubeconsulting.com If you can show me crackbots that autonomously coordinate their attacks like [insert random potentially offensive analogy here], then there's a chance you may be right about this.

Re: Bots don't honor 301 :(

2009-01-13 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:18:31 -0500 From: Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com CC: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org botnet (using the higher numbers) was accurate and, for sake of argument, 10 web sites are hosted on a server on average (purely out of thin air number I made up), there are

Re: Bots don't honor 301 :(

2009-01-12 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:35:05 -0500 From: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Larry Cook lc...@sybase.com wrote: They would just come back or go bother someone else. #ifdef CURMUDGEON They'll do that anyway. This is not a effective deterrent. How

Re: Bots don't honor 301 :(

2009-01-12 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:46:26 -0500 From: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com not to. There are orders of magnitude more bots then web servers. That's quite a claim. Do you have evidence for this? In order for the scenario you're suggesting to take place, vulnerable hosts would have to be

Bots don't honor 301 :(

2009-01-10 Thread VirginSnow
My httpd logs have been bombarded, lately, with probes by crackbots (mostly for roundcube webmail and mantis bugtracker exploits). This got me wondering, What can I do to keep these buggers off my server? Of course, the iptables -j TARPIT approach came to mind, but that didn't quite seem

Re: Bots don't honor 301 :(

2009-01-10 Thread VirginSnow
From: H. Kurth Bemis ku...@kurthbemis.com Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:51:50 -0500 Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org I solved a similar problem using iptables rate limiting feature. Just slows down the attempts from hundreds/night to about ~8/night. I was thinking about accepting the

Re: On portable C programming (was: libraw1394 struct layouts...)

2009-01-09 Thread VirginSnow
From: Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:33:33 -0500 My outline over-complicated the solution - no pointer array is needed. If the addresses of the structs are be obtained from the kernel while it is running, the data can be sent to or taken from them to an

Re: On portable C programming (was: libraw1394 struct layouts...)

2009-01-08 Thread VirginSnow
From: Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com Organization: Intrel Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:20:12 -0500 On Thursday 08 January 2009 00:06, Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:31 PM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: So what's the recommended way to do this? I dunno that there really is

Re: libraw1394 struct layouts, i386 vs. x86_64

2009-01-07 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:10:38 -0500 From: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com snip! Moral being: If you're a programmer, do not use C struct's for anything but internal-use-only purposes. Do not pass them to/from external code. And *NEVER* write or read C struct's directly to files. So

SIP Registration

2008-12-09 Thread VirginSnow
I just signed up with a US48 SIP provider which claims to be Asterisk-friendly. However, I had a bit of trouble getting their service to work with Asterisk. I am using them for outbound calling to the PSTN *only*, not for receiving calls from the PSTN. The problem I had was this: whenever I

Re: Getting around port 80 block [SOLVED]

2008-12-08 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 08:05:17 -0500 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it could potentially BE an emergency, the FIRST step would be to: 1) Find the guy using a residential service to host. 2) Find hammer.

Re: Rodents (mice)

2008-12-08 Thread VirginSnow
From: Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:17:20 -0500 to switch between console tabs quickly. I can imagine setting them in a mail client to do text size adjustment I can imagine setting them to switch between e-mail and HTML mail. :P -N

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:22:15 -0500 From: Frank DiPrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: GNHLUG mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org function proxy_stream($flv_url) { $curl_handle=curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $flv_url );

Re: Selling Linux PCs WAS: Looking for local mobo suppliers

2008-11-16 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:40:46 -0500 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having a hard time selling Linux PC's in this economy ... sarcasmBut everybody knows that it's only Microsoft's OEM sales policies

Re: [OT] *GaSp*

2008-11-11 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:04:10 -0500 From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did I just get a gnhlug mail again? :-D I have to confess, I was getting used to not receiving GNHLUG posts. :) When I saw the subject of this thread, I assumed GaSp was the name of some fancy new software

Re: [OT] Job interviews; manhole covers (was: Converting HTML ...)

2008-10-09 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:45:47 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] For example, if you come off as pretentious, that would generally be a bad thing for any job that will require working with other people. (Hmmm, if I ever have a prospective employer review my postings to this

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:08:19 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] * When a plain text body alternative is provided, strip any other body alternatives * Render HTML to plain text, when only an HTML body is provided * Strip any remaining MIME headers Hm. Maybe: * Convert to ASCII as

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-10-06 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:15:03 -0400 From: Alan Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK folks, I have finally gotten back to this and have something of a new twist on the subject. I have followed Ben's instructions except the bit about creating com1 and com2 configs (which is very cool) because I only

META: message encoding/MIME types

2008-10-06 Thread VirginSnow
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:13:01 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 SSBoYXZlIGEgc3dpdGNoIGJldHdlZW4gdGhlIHR3byBjb21wdXRlcnMgSSBhbSB0cnlpbmcgdG8g

Re: Skype and Asterisk

2008-09-27 Thread VirginSnow
From: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:24:05 -0400 On Sep 26, 2008, at 14:42, Thomas Charron wrote: Wow, I didn't see THIS one coming.. Unless I read that wrong, it's just allowing Skype PSTN gateway via Asterisk. I doubt Skype will ever allow their

Re: Looking for people's experience with po files.

2008-09-10 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:14:13 -0400 From: Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] po files are a part of the gettext solution for handling internationalization (i18n). Good explanation of gettext snipped... part of what gettext handles by default. The trick there is to use gettext to obtain the

Re: Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

2008-09-03 Thread VirginSnow
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Connecting plain old telephones to analog adapters isn't an acceptable solution. All the desk sets on old wiring would either (1) loose features beyond making telephone calls, or (2) require hook flash and dialing

Re: Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

2008-09-03 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:34:58 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone know of any kind of enhanced telephone set that can be connected to an Asterisk-based system using plain old telephone phone wiring? You might also look into X.25. It's a packet networking technology designed

Re: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-20 Thread VirginSnow
From: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:03:27 -0400 in series. So, if one bought two marine batteries, a bigger box, and was familiar with proper acid handling techniques, ought there be an electrical reason that 'just' making a 19.5v battery with the

Mobile power supply WAS: Re: SFD volunteers in Concord, NH

2008-08-18 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:25:31 -0400 From: mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 05:05:23PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Aug 18, 2008, at 14:38, Ben Scott wrote: 12 VDC from a car works but is suboptimal. Who knows anything about hooking up a laptop directly to

Re: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-18 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:50:35 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] multi-voltage adapters). Nasty alternator noise in the audio. Went I imagine sufficiently good quality components would not have trouble, but most laptops have cheap parts for both power and audio. Noise depends

Re: Kernel parameters... X86_TSC

2008-08-07 Thread VirginSnow
From: Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:16:31 -0400 I've found CONFIG_X86_TSC=y in my kernel config file, but how do I verify that's the correct parameter or not? grep -lr CONFIG_X86_TSC /usr/src/linux Yes, CONFIG_X86_TSC is probably what you're

Re: FOSS tools for reading COM/OLE structured storage files

2008-08-04 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:09:59 -0400 From: Larry Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone have experience using FOSS tools for reading COM/OLE structured storage[1] files? I'm going to look at POIFS[2] and OLE::Storeage[3] but was wondering if someone has a recommendation based on

Re: COSIG, Ubuntu SIG, or maybe both...

2008-08-03 Thread VirginSnow
yawn... stretch... Good morning, Arc. Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:23:26 -0400 From: Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Forming a group specifically for those activities and having regular outreach organizing meetings is very different from the model I've seen be

Re: Automated Teller Machines

2008-08-03 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:34:50 -0400 From: Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org A bank in Brasil was using OS/2 for their OS in their ATM machines. They switched to Linux several years ago. I can give you their name if you are interested. Yes,

Re: Ubuntu SIG

2008-08-02 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:18:41 -0400 From: Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip I don't think it'd be helpful to merge the SIG as a cross-distro group, any more than it'd be helpful to merge RubySIG and PySIG into a generic Programmers SIG. Yes, some of the topics between the groups are

COSIG, Ubuntu SIG, or maybe both...

2008-08-02 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 20:30:24 -0400 From: Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org We're not misunderstanding anything, we're talking about two entirely separate groups; That's what it's begining to sound like. I am not at all interested in your outreach group idea,

Re: COSIG, Ubuntu SIG, or maybe both...

2008-08-02 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 21:47:47 -0400 From: Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org I have been and will continue to be involved in advocacy/outreach. That is different from being part of the group you're talking about. Um. That *is* the purpose of the COSIG idea.

New GNHLUG SIG

2008-08-01 Thread VirginSnow
For those of you who weren't at lastnight's GNHLUG board meeting, the Board expressed favor for the idea of creating a new SIG. In order to get the final thumbs up, the SIG must have a slick-sounding name and something at least resembling a mission statement. I'm going to propose the name

Re: New GNHLUG SIG

2008-08-01 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:18:55 -0400 From: Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Holy cow. You sent this spewing vomitous reply to the whole list? You should be aware there are over 300 people on the -discuss list. Nevertheless, since you posted on-list, I will reply

Re: New GNHLUG SIG

2008-08-01 Thread VirginSnow
From: Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:56:17 -0400 On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 14:18 -0400, Arc Riley wrote: As a side note, please stop using the word gay to refer to something you don't like, it's offensive. I'd like to second this. It's offensive and unnecessary.

Re: New GNHLUG SIG

2008-08-01 Thread VirginSnow
From: Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:31:42 -0400 Are you actually going to tell me that you think equating an entire subset of the population, several of whom I would imagine belong to this mailing list, as bad is acceptable? I didn't say that gays were bad or

Re: bash weirdness

2008-07-24 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:05:51 -0400 (EDT) From: John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] After I fixed that, getent group worked correctly, but the backtick and pipe behaviors are still broken. Sounds like your fork() is somehow broken. Does running commands in the background work? Try something

Re: bash weirdness

2008-07-24 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:44:28 -0400 (EDT) From: John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] xlogo doesn't work; I get [1]+ Broken pipe xlogo That's what I was expecting would happen. When i login with tcsh instead of bash, I get a lot of broken pipes: ssh -t -Y

Re: Meaning/usage of $_ in bash

2008-07-23 Thread VirginSnow
From: Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:57:14 -0400 When bash invokes an external command, the variable $_ is set to the full file name of the command and passed to that command in its environment. ...which seems to describe one piece of how it actually

Re: automatic hard linking

2008-07-23 Thread VirginSnow
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:48:10 + A co-worker and I were talking about various ways to do 'backups' to try and prevent data loss. The topic came around to a file system we had used at a previous job. I can't remember the specifics, but we believe it was a

Re: Meaning/usage of $_ in bash

2008-07-23 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:27:09 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] As Thomas Charon hinted at, it appears to start out set to the last external command, but then it gets set to the last word of the previous command line. I dunno if that's by design, or just an accident of

Re: Undelete from MS-DOS/VFAT from Linux?

2008-07-18 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:55:56 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got a FAT-formatted flash drive with a deleted file on it I'd like to get back. I'm pretty sure the file is still there, just the directory entry for it is deleted. I'm wondering if anyone here has knowledge on

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