Re: Dynamic DNS: Ubuntu vs. CentOS.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, all. At my new employer -- where I have essentially zero visibility > into how DNS is run -- my Ubuntu boxen push out forward-lookup DNS just > fine, but not so much my CentOS box (at least, with default > configurations). Ideas on wh

Re: Fedora NetworkManager and dhclient help request

I can't verify, but according to an article comment on serverfault[1], requesting the domain-name and host-name from the server negates the "send host-name" option. There were a few other suggestions in that article as well. Normally MS DHCP/DNS only allows secure updates, and this must be expressl

Re: SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John Abreau wrote: > Long ago, I was looking for a way to make scp read from stdin, and I > had no luck. > Is this documented anywhere? I don't understand why the option would be > left out of the man page. > > Although I've never heard of the -t option to scp m

Re: SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Shawn O'Shea wrote: > > dd if=infile | ssh remotehost dd of=outfile > or > tar cf - | ssh remotehost tar xvf - > > Oops, forgot the infile in my 2nd example. Should be: tar cf - infile | ssh remot

Re: mint

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > > Maybe I'm just looking to hold on to gnome. It worked well enough. It > didn't have too much stupid stuff and was relatively easy to maintain. > > Any insights? > Who knows how long it will still be available, but if you launch Ubuntu Sof

Re: mint

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Ed lawson wrote: > > Thank you for that info. I have been switching between Gnome 3 and the > Classic Gnome options provided in SID and nice to know you can get > there in Ubuntu too. For me using "classic" is relatively > painless, but Gnome 3 will take awhile.

Re: ManchLUG needs a new home!

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Kenta Koga wrote: > Sounds good to me. I've been meaning to get in there to talk to the > management and request the function room. > > I'd also started to talk to Jamie @ the ABI but my preference is for a > place where there is beer. > > Just for an additional s

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just had to replace my backup drive for my main development system here > at the house and I replaced it with a 2 TB WD network drive. Now that all > my systems can see it, I'd like to do reasonable backups for all the > syste

Re: Tablet recommendations?

> > Does anyone know of an scp/sftp client for Android? I've got connectbot for SSH, but I'd love to have something like filezilla. > > I've been happy with AndFTP. It does FTP, FTPS, SCP and SFTP. I've mainly used it to push things up to my web hosting account. -Shawn ___

Re: Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > The most recent announcement from them that I'm > aware of is that they (once again) plan to abandon the 64bit > version altogether. They're actually only providing limited security fix releases of Flash

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, David Ohlemacher wrote: > > I looked at Dell and bought a Precision M6500 I7. Dell gives us pretty > good corp discounts. It is currently running LMDE(xfce). It has been > great. We have several, others running Windoze.One coworker has had > nothing but tro

Re: USB linux rescue disk

I've only messed with HP thin clients recently. You may be able to at least reflash the internal flash with a default Wyse XPe image, that at least you will be able to login to and do more debugging. the downloads appear to be free and available from: https://appservices.wyse.com/pages/serviceands

Re: USB (*gasp*) modem?

Personally I've had great experience under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux with the Keyspan adapters (now owned by Tripplite). Like this one http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtModelID=3914 -Shawn On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 23:28:05 -0400

Re: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > The question is: how do I tell that to LinkedIn? > > > I don't use LinkedIn a lot, but I've been somewhat infrequently updating it over the last year. When I received my CISSP certification, I wanted to add that to my profile. I found

Re: ip6tables problem

The LOG target is apparently implemented as an iptables extension, but is a standard extension for the iptables package. On an Ubuntu LTS system I have, it is /lib/xtables/libipt_LOG.so and part of the iptables Ubuntu packages. In a 64-bit CentOS 6 system I have, it's /lib64/xtables/libipt_LOG.so a

Re: ip6tables problem

les/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.ko Is that on your system? Have you created a custom compiled kernel that perhaps does not have the proper option enabled to build it? -Shawn On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Shawn O'S

Re: SAS controller

+1 for LSI controllers. Dell has OEMed these for years and on their high-end desktops are moving from Dell PERC ("special OEMed LSI) controllers to the straight LSI controllers. I have some of the 9211 cards installed in a bunch of servers: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816

Re: su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable

Not directly related to the issue, but I thought I'd not that you don't have to have sudo exec an su with the "sudo su - user", you can get an interactive shell from sudo directly: sudo -i -u user -i says you want an interactive login shell. If you don't specify "-u username" then it assumes root

Re: Linux-friendly USB 802.11n

I was curious about this and googled around. There seem to be a lot of sites identifying compatible adapters, but one of the more interesting site I found that I had never seen before was Think Penguin, a site dedicated to Linux compatible hardware. Their wifi adapter is $54 and expressly calls out

Re: Files <-> Samsung Galaxy S4

The Linux Action Show podcast used to feature an Android app pick segment every week, and apps that help with this were commonly featured (a listener maintained list of apps they've covered is here, http://www.appbrain.com/app/airdroid-best-device-manager/com.sand.airdroid#descriptionsection). Air

Re: PC Build

I haven't built a system in awhile, but I'm dealing with buying new systems and dealing with compatibility with existing systems at $dayjob regularly. I second the suggestions about a barebones system (zotac zbox, shuttle mini-pc and their ilk) or a second-hand (although those can have their quirk

Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Matt Minuti wrote: > I've had bad luck with Chicagovps, you really do get what you pay for with > them, and trying to reset a server tends to result in a week of downtime > and a few support tickets. Digitalocean has been great and really cheap. > They've been my

Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

+1 for system rescue cd. As far as other handy utility distros. If I'm just resizing a partition, I'll do gparted live (Gui but goes straight to gparted partition editor) and if imaging (backup/restore) then Clonezilla Live. http://gparted.org/livecd.php http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php

Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

In 14.04, the default init system (PID 1) is upstart. Upstart manages what it calls jobs. It also know how to load "classic" sysvinit scripts for backward compatibility. I wasn't aware of this until googling today, but apparently in 14.04, systemd was available to run alongside upstart via the libs

Re: Network-controlled power switches/relays?

Not sure if you are looking for rack-mount or what your price range is, but at $dayjob, I a have a few rackmount ePDU G3 Managed from Eaton. http://powerquality.eaton.com/Products-services/Backup-Power-UPS/Eaton-Managed-ePDU.aspx I have users accessing these remotely, most commonly via SSH X11 for

Re: ISO: Free In-House Kanban/Scrum Web-Based Board

I don't know much about it, but I've seen some open source projects user Trello. https://trello.com/ -Shawn On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:08 PM pab wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > > I am in search of a free (or cheap) web-based kanban/scrum task board > that is _

Re: Nashua-area folks -- meet up?

I’m interested and 2/20 looks open for me. -Shawn On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:23 PM Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Well, I'll take point on calling Martha's -- if, that is, enough people > reply to warrant grabbing a bigger table. Anybody got a preferred time? > It's heading toward Feb, and we should

Re: Known good wireless Linux Keyboard & Mouse combos?

If you want Logitech, then you should be able to filter on features in their website (here's their combos page: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/combos). I like the MX master mice. I think I have 2 MX Master 2's. Looks like the Master 3 now uses USB-C where the 2 and earlier use microUSB for chargin

Re: Question about ssh key generation

My understanding (your mileage may vary). * dsa used to be a goto, but is now considered bad/insecure * rsa is still the default in many ssh configs, but is starting to also be considered not secure * ed25519 is considered pretty secure, but the impression I've been given is that it is new-ish enou

Re: Open source IP to Fax software?

Faxing is an inherently telephone-line based endeavor. So somewhere along the way you need something attached to the POTS (Plain Old Telephone System). There may be simpler ways on Linux, but the HylaFax server [1] has been a long standing solution for this, but again, requires one or more modems

Re: Book or online source on modern Linux system files and organization

A lot of stuff in the UI these days is controlled from the UI (of course there are also command line tools and such as well). Is there a keyboard or input settings panel? Pop is based on GNOME, so you may also want to install GNOME tweaks and look at the settings in there. -Shawn On Thu, Dec 22,

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

> > No, but many of them are 2-wire digital (circuit switched), with > proprietary encoding and signaling. So all our Norstar phones work > just fine on 50 year old premises telephone wiring. > > (Reason I'm asking is that we're expanding into new space that > *will* have LAN jacks everywhere, s

Re: Serial admin console program

> > > > I am using a lantronix 48 port term server also > (not a kvm) > > Back in my days of managing my Sun boxes, we had a Lantronix and I hated it. My experience with them is *years* old though. I'm partial to the Cyclades (now Avocent) myself. Formerly had the TS2000, now Avocent pushes the ACS

Re: LAN/WAN fault simulation

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Michael ODonnell < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We may want to characterize some client/server systems and > applications (destined to be geographically distant from each > other) in the face of various LAN/WAN faults/conditions like > dropped/duplicate packets an

Re: Blackberry webpages

Most mobile platforms offer some kind of emulator for their devices for developers. A few quick Google's provided: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/downloads/simulators.jsp -Shawn On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a bit off topic, but does a

Re: x86_64 Live-CD recommendations? /sbin/loader?

> > So I've been looking for something that'll allow me to create a > new bootable/live/rescue DVD that I can base the new installer > on, and I'd love to find something as simple and flexible as > the Timo's kit; something that just starts a kernel and boots > up to a console login prompt with a m

Re: YDL (RHAT) etc/sysconfig/desktop

> > I think I know how to set PREFERRED, I was wondering if desktop had any > other settings. > On a standard Red Hat system, the /etc/sysconfig files are part of the initscripts package. The documentation for this packages includes a document about setting for the sysconfig scripts. On a local b

Re: Assistance with archival script

> > #!/bin/bash > DLDIR='/var/lib/samba/shares/xfer/All Downloads/incoming/' > cd "$DLDIR" > find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec echo /usr/bin/7z a -t7z -mx=0 {}.7z {} \; > Not that you _can't_ do it with find, but if I'm understanding your goal, I'd do it like this (not 100% tested): for i in *; do

Re: http://www.sysresccd.org

Revisor is a gui around pungi. IIRC, pungi is the tool that RH & Fedora use to actually create their distros. -Shawn On Nov 21, 2008 9:14 PM, "Michael ODonnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a previous thread I asked for recommendations and somebody said: > For customizing CentOS, you mig

Re: a call for collos

The ones I am aware of are MV Communications and Dynamic Internet. MV graciously provided GNHLUG's colo and are in Manchester. http://www.mv.com/ Dynamic Internet is in downtown Nashua. http://www.dynamicinternet.com/ -Shawn On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Alan Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: Notes from PySIG, 17-December-2008: Porting to Python 3.0, holiday cookies

Rats! For some reason I thought this was next week. I've been swamped between work, finishing the semester and not having power for a few days (sorry to hear some folks are *still* without). Anyway, sounds like I missed a decent meeting. Oh well, there's always next month -Shawn On Thu, Dec 18, 2

Re: Python question

time.time() returns the number of seconds since the epoch, so end-start should be the number of seconds of execution. For example, given the following program timetest.py: import time start=time.time() time.sleep(5) end=time.time() print end-start The output should very close to 5 seconds (wit

Re: Ubuntu Developer Week - starts today

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Arc Riley wrote: > Just a reminder, this morning at 11am kicks off Ubuntu Developer Week with > a multilingual (different rooms) opening session. There'll be workshops on > packaging, streamlining your booting, the Ubuntu netbook remix, and lots of > other intere

Re: Linux on a Sun Blade 2500?

My experience over the years has been that, although there existing Linux for Sparc, there is not that great of a developer or support community around it. If you just want to reinstall and have a usable Sun system, I would highly recommend just reinstalling it with a new Solaris install. Solaris

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM, kenta wrote: > > > Actually I need to get the info regardless of delimiters so matching > any hex digits of a certain length works for me. I'd sent an e-mail > before but I used the wrong address so maybe it didn't go through, for > som reason the gnu-port of grep

Re: Eee PC, distro choice, power mgmt

> I'll start by confirming what others have said already: it should be > sufficient for a full distro. I have run full Ubuntu 8.04 on lesser > hardware very happily. I have played with Xubuntu on a few machines and > have not noticed a huge difference between it and Ubuntu, but I think it is > mo

Re: C & C++ string confusion

I googled "open file c++" in Google and got this page: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files.html There's an fstream include and you cin and cout to it like to do to stdin/out. Also, no reason to call out to the shell. All standard file operations (create/delete/copy/move/rename) are usuall

Re: [OT] Obtaining Android handsets

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Anybody have a contact at Google or T-Mobile that > might be useful in acquiring (purchase/loan/gift) > multiple live cell-capable Android handsets for app > development? I know somebody who says he's tri

Re: Codehosting was Re: Launchpad to be free

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Lori Nagel wrote: > > I've been hosting my project on sourceforge. I don't know that it is the > best place to host it, but at the time I was looking at project hosting, I > saw either that or savannah, and savannah had just had extensive down time > (I think it w

Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

> > My car has my official single MA plate on the back and one of those > Compaq LINUX plates on the front where I suppose the casual observer > might conclude it's official NH issue. I don't know how much they enforce it, but if you have the newer red and white MA plates (as opposed to the old g

Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

> > I don't know how much they enforce it, but if you have the newer red and > white MA plates (as opposed to the old green and white ones), MA requires > you to display them both. > From http://www.mass.gov/rmv/faq/registration.htm#r4 > > *My green registration plate is faded. How do I get a new o

Re: UNIX license plate

> > > Shawn O'Shea has "SDF-1", which, while not FOSS/*nix related, I was > amused by, as I recall it being quite a small car. > I think at the time you may have seen it on my Mini. But seeing as that was a heaping pile of maintenance hell, I only owned it

Re: HTML scraping in python

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Paul Lussier wrote: > Paul Lussier writes: > > > I stumbled up BeautifulSoup and am now trying to get that and the > > mechanize module installed. > > Okay, I've got that installed. I've figured out enough BS to get me a > single row of the table into a list com

Re: Asterix phone systems in a box?

Digium has the Asterisk Appliance ( http://www.digium.com/en/products/appliance/) and apparently since last I looked have come out with more full-blown solutions in SwitchVox IP PBX line (http://www.digium.com/en/products/switchvox/). Trixbox, an integrated Asterisk+FreePBX for management wrapped

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

A number of the developers have posted some information on their personal blogs. The CentOS Planet has a number of them in their aggregation: http://planet.centos.org/ -Shawn On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Anybody know anything beyon

Re: Notes from last night's meeting

Sounds like it was interesting. I tried to make it, but I got out of work late, and then Rt3 North had really terrible traffic and I wasn't even rolling into Nashua until 7:15. I've even been messing a lot with Python lately! :) -Shawn On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > Posted

Re: Enabling Virtual Machine support

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Darrell Michaud wrote: > Just to round out the thread.. > > As people have already stated, the intel VT optimizations are not required > to support virtualization, or even hypervisors. Vmware ESX is an example > of a decent hypervisor that does not require these CP

Re: diagnosing network speed bottlenecks

> > Speed tests like http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flash=1 report my > performance as... > 4,909 Kb/s Download > 3,055 Kb/s Upload > > But, in my experience downloading files, I rarely get anything like > that. In fact, while the DSL Reports Speed Test is checking my > system, I'm watching

Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

A couple of notes about the Mac Mini. The general stance Apple has taken over the years is that the Mini only exists because customers insisted there be a model like it in it's price range. It is not Apple's "you're new to Mac, but this system." When Apple wants to sell a new-to-Mac user a machine,

Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

www.apple.com In the top navbar, click "Mac" In the navbar that comes up under that click "Mac Mini" In the Mac Mini navbar, click Tech Specs There is a section "In the box" that describes what it comes with (which does not include a keyboard and mouse) and there is a section called "Graphics a

Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

> > > How about just "wrong information"? If you click on Tech Specs it tells > you you need an adapter to connect to VGA. Scroll down the page and you > see "Confiure to order" (which is definitely the Mac Mini) and > "Accessories". In the "Accessories" list with a clickable link is "Apple > Mini-

Re: Parallel sockets or?

> > The originators of psock were at cesnet.cz, there is a link to the library > at http://www.cesnet.cz/project/qosip > > The make doesn't finish. Several compile errors. I played about a bit, > but did not make much headway... > > I was curious and downloaded this. I'm working on CentOS 5.3 (32

Re: Parallel sockets or?

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM, wrote: > "Shawn O'Shea" wrote on 10/08/2009 01:27:57 PM: > > > > The originators of psock were at cesnet.cz, there is a link to the > library > > at http://www.cesnet.cz/project/qosip > > > > The make doesn'

Re: What is the result of connecting a single link (DVI-D) video source to a dual link monitor?

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote: > I'm trying to connect a new Mac Mini to a Barco monitor. The Barco > monitor expects a dual link video source (2048 x 1536 /1536 x 2048) but > the Mini is outputing single link DVI-D. The Mac sees the monitor as > having a resolution of 1280x

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers Let's try again.

> > > perl -0777 -ne 'print join "", reverse split //' > > And just because I'm a python geek: python -c "import sys; print sys.stdin.read()[::-1].strip()" -Shawn ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailm

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

Along similar lines to Ben's original link, apparently stability problems in Ubuntu have frustrated the Eeebuntu developer to the point that he is giving up on maintaining Eee utils for Ubuntu for the EePC. http://www.fewt.com/2009/10/i-give-up.html -Shawn On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Colema

Re: [semi-OT] configuring DNS, virtual hosting on dreamhost (?)

> > Well, I haven't tried their systems, but I expect the second comer > will get told the domain in question is already configured in the > system. > > I have (well, ok being both a GoDaddy and DreamHost customer, I just tried). You get an "Error: You can't add that domain: already in our system

Re: The MySQL petition

The feelings on the Oracle acquisition seem quite split in the open source community. Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center wrote an opinion to the European Commission in favor of the acquisition [1] and Pamela Jones of Groklaw has written a few articles about the merger in support includi

Re: Running linux without Gnome/KDE

I'm actually tunning fluxbox on Ubuntu (my laptop thrashes a lot when I run GNOME because it doesn't have a lot of memory). I'm pretty sure I didn't need to do anything special beyond install the fluxbox package. Then when you get the GUI logogn screen, click Options down in the bottom left corner

Re: Linux usable Live Meeting - like or Webex-like online collaboration

I actually just found out about an app the other day that may suite your needs. It's called BigBlueButton http://bigbluebutton.org/ >From their website: What is BigBlueButton? BigBlueButton is an open source project that is built on over fourteen open source components

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

I know I'm resurrecting an old thread here, but I just saw a post in Planet CentOS that seems to have some info on fixing the mismatch_cnt is no 0 error, Take a loog at this blog post where the author's suggests some md actions that can be taken to clear these errors: http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

> > > Reading further in this morning's updates it does appear that SCO will > pursue the IBM case, and there are a few other cases with claims and > counter claims. SCO's agreement with its attorneys, Bois Schiller, > obligate them to the end of the case. While this verdict does remove > some of

Re: Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

I've always felt that at a minimum servers deserve real names. The first naming convention I saw was on my first Unix account, SunOS boxes in CS at University of Hartford, named after movie computers (hal, skynet). At a previous job, we had HP-UX servers named after characters in Johnny Quest (rac

Re: IPv6 deployment?

If you want to configure static IPv6 addresses in CentOS, it's pretty easy. You set UPV6_NETWORKING=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network and assign an address in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-XXX file. See this page for some more details http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-redhat-fedora-centos-i

Re: du(1) for FTP sites

I started looking at writing it in Python. The library I was looking at (ftputil http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/ , easy_install ftputil) supports walking the directory structure (much like os.walk or is it os.path.walk) and provides a stat method to get info (including filesize) on the files (theref

Re: Broadcom WiFi -- for a public library -- in Fedora 13 maybe?

Google results seem to suggest for Fedora that you have 2 options: * Get the proprietary Broadcom firmware and use the fw-cutter tool to extract the firmware and drop it in /lib/firmware http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#device_firmware_installation * Use the open rewrite/replacement f

Re: Froyo on Droid?

> have no interest in upgrading just yet. Unless, of course, VzW scores > a Samsung Galaxy S model (like the Captivate that AT&T has). > > They did. It's called the Verizon Fascinate. No release date yet, but the announcement that Samsung did a month or so ago confirmed that VzW will carry the Gala

Re: dual pci nic with bridging

The only host-based thing I've seen for something like that are the Endace DAG cards. They tout 100% packet capture since they take all the processing off the host CPU. They are not cheap though...I think it was like 6000$ for a dual port. http://www.endace.com/endace-dag-high-speed-packet-capture

Re: Qi-Hardware Nanonote group purchase?

Looks interesting. I'm waiting for the crop of Android-based PMPs coming out from the big names for my next iPod replacement. A few are in the pipe like the two announced at IFA in Germany this week. Samsung Galaxy Player 50 - http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/03/samsung-galaxy-player-50-hands-on/ Ph

Re: Feedback desired: Minnesota Open Data bill

I haven't had a chance to read quite to the end since I need to get out the door to school and then work, but I wanted to throw in a few comments. In the definitions, 1.1.d, "Cyber Security" does not just apply to Internet connected systems. They may have secure systems, SCADA systems (systems for

Re: LVM problem

Looks like someone on the fedora forum had something similar happenthey seemed to be able to recover knowing the UUID of the "lost" drive and the file in /etc/lvm pvcreate -f –uuid "Z4lh8H-G0e8-K8q1-4WB6-faac-39hk-b82MWU" –restorefile /etc/lvm/backup/recover /dev/sdb http://fedoraforum.org/for

Re: Eee PC hands on?

> > Any scuttlebutt about updates for Eee PC? I don't need this right away > and can wait if something better is in the pipeline. The only other thing I've seen in the pipe that I'm considering is the "Cloudbook". This is supposed to be Everex's laptop followup to their 200$ Walmart-sold desktop

Re: managing applications

On 1/7/08, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, another unix operations theory question: > >What's the best way to maintain installs of applications? This may not be as useful for small scale implementations, but I know of some sites (including other groups here where I work) tha

Re: Eee PC hands on?

On 12/17/07, Shawn O'Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Any scuttlebutt about updates for Eee PC? I don't need this right away > > and can wait if something better is in the pipeline. > > > The only other thing I've seen in the pipe

Re: Eee PC hands on?

On 1/9/08, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 3:03 PM, Shawn O'Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Engadget got a chance to play with the system a little at: > > > http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/hands-on-with-the-packard-bell-ea

Re: Permissions on python setup.py install

Don't be in the numpy src dir. dhcp91:~/Download/numpy-1.0.4 shawn$ pwd /Users/shawn/Download/numpy-1.0.4 dhcp91:~/Download/numpy-1.0.4 shawn$ python -c 'import numpy; numpy.test()' Running from numpy source directory. Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'mo

Re: Fix for vmsplice exploit...

On 2/13/08, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex Hewitt wrote: > > Just after I turned on my Ubuntu 7.10 laptop this morning the update > > manager informed me of a fix for the vmsplice exploit. The description: > > > > I saw the patch come in over the Red Hat Network for a couple of Red H

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

If you have python and the pywin32 libraries installed, a script like this works... Adjust the dirs at the beginning. This will convert to rtf (and strips the last three letters of the filename and changes them to rtf). If you want txt, change "rtf" to "txt" and 6 to 2 in the SaveAs (the numbers co

Re: Solved: SSH tunnel question

On 2/27/08, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I run the work side incantation, it turns into a shell session. Is > > > there a way to change it so that it has no session at the end of it ... > > From ssh(1

Re: Good FOSS Win32 apps (was: Writing FOSS for Win32...)

On 3/19/08, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:59 AM, David J Berube > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> FileZilla is a great FTP/SFTP client. > > > > Works great on Linux as well. Another image editing option is Paint.NET. It's an MIT licensed image editing app

Re: In search of an nForce2 board w/FireWire...

> Isn't the MCP-T on lots of cheap nForce-2 based motherboards? > > I believe so, but I'm not seeing very many that actually have the > FireWire functionality wired up. The Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe and Abit NF7-S > v2 are the only two I can confirm have what I'm after. There may well be > a Shuttle bo

Re: gnuplot woes

I did a 'yum list gnuplot\*' on my CentOS 4.6 box. It says gnuplot comes with CentOS Available Packages gnuplot.i386 4.0.0-4 base gnuplot-emacs.i386 4.0.0-4 base You should just be able to do (as root with an Internet connection): yum install gnupl

Re: New distro question

> > and MacOSX launchd and Solaris 10's SMF (I miss /etc/init.d/* sometimes). > > NetBSD hasn't used rc.local for awhile. OpenBSD still uses it. > And launchd was new in 10.4. Prior to that it was SystemStarter (which a few things in 10.4 still get started by, see /System/Library/StartupItems) -

Re: New distro question

> > There's some other new dependency-based service manager > init-replacement thing in the FOSS world. I forget the name. It's > packaged as an option in Debian (of course). It looked appealing, but > I didn't care enough to try it. > Upstart? http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu started using

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Coleman Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A more helpful suggestion is that you may want to set the > > default_destination_recipient_limit in /etc/postfix/main.cf ... to 5. > > I don't k

Re: howto determine processor characteristics from cli

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Labitt, Bruce < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the toolbox link. I used to have a cribsheet like this a > long time ago (and lost it). > > Doh on /proc/cpuinfo... > > For memory configuration is there an equivalent which gives the hardware > info like mem

Re: Comcast blocks port 25 incoming, yet again

> > Furthermore, I do host my own "websites" and "email" on my local > connection but none of it is used for commercial or business use. The > comcast representative then proceeded to inform me that my hosting > violates their terms and that I can get another provider, or I can use > their "busines

Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

GNHLUG doesn't have a table or other "official" presense at this weekend's NEARfest . I know a number of GNHLUGgers have mentioned in recent meetings that they'll be attending, so you've got a chance of bumping into some Linux geeks :) -Shawn On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Bill Ricker <[EMAIL

Re: IMAP Server

> >Can anyone recommend an IMAP server that will allow me to do this? > I'm hoping for something simple but effective. If you need more > information > from me, please let me know. > I find Dovecot to be both of those things (simple and effective). I think it would serve your needs pretty

Re: Converting mailboxes from mbox to maildir.

> > I'm using dovecot as my IMAP/POP server. Does anyone know if it's > possible for it to work with both mbox and Maildir at the same time so I > can convert my users' mailboxes one user account at a time? From my > research so far I'm under the impression that I can configure doevcot to > use eit

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