Re: Speaking of OSS in schools

2005-07-07 Thread Star
Okay, call it a fit of inspriation (thank you Brian!). I ran out an registered linuxinschools.[com, net, info] (org was taken), and I offer it for the following: How would a group as knowledgable and as talented as the GNHLUG or ~any~LUG package, market, and sell (as in convince) Linux to towns

Re: Question on iptables and forwarding inward

2005-09-10 Thread Star
That's the hope, yes, as I do run a couple of other services (smtp, http(s)) via port forwarding.On 9/10/05, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:09:31PM -0400, Star wrote: Hi All, I've got a server sitting inside my firewall (netfilter/iptables) and I need to make

Re: Question on iptables and forwarding inward

2005-09-10 Thread Star
On 9/10/05, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Star, please don't top-post, it makes it harder to understand whatyou are saying:For example what are you referring to below when yousay Thats the hope?(yes, I can guess this time, but thereason for the time honored tradition of bottom posting

Re: DNS Recursion

2005-09-14 Thread Star
On 9/14/05, Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All,I'm using BIND8 (8.4.6) as an external name server. I want to also useit as the name server for my external boxes. However, I can't seem toget recursion to work correctly.If I use `allow-recursion {none; };` then dns lookups for my

Re: Half Dux Linksys?

2005-09-15 Thread Star
On 9/15/05, Lawrence Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, all. Today I had my service swapped over from cable to DSL. When I hit Speakeasy's speed test after the new service was setup however I got a bit of a shock. My download speed was clocking in at only 800kbps ( upload is about 650

Re: howto demo website

2005-09-20 Thread Star
On 9/20/05, Marc Nozell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 10:27 -0500, Richard Soule wrote: Greg Rundlett wrote: Anybody have suggestions for good (free software) tools for recording and playing back a website demo?I built an application that has a web frontend, and I want to

Re: jabber?

2005-10-18 Thread Star
Oh no! Not Tom in front of the group... *sigh* well, yeah, okay, but I'm gonna be buying a lot of beer that night ;)On 10/18/05, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On 10/17/05, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember at one point that someone in the group was quite familiar with

DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS

2005-12-13 Thread Star
to pitch the idea of keeping the edges as BIND/RH and using them as slaves with Windows masters being setup for the Ease of mgt they're looking for. Googling for such things is becoming a full time job ;) Thanks in advance for your help/suggestions!~Star

Re: DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS

2005-12-13 Thread Star
Is the real issue managing BIND, or is the real issue that everybody there hates nix, and BIND management is just the latest excuse to get rid of nix?Currently, it's some of each. There is definately a fear of using something that's not understood. It's not so much a matter of trying to force

Re: OT: Forum legalish question

2006-03-05 Thread Star
There's a couple of groups on Yahoo (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhlibertarians/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NHPorcupines-announce/) that I'm sure would look at this with Rabid Fascination.With New Hampshire having been chosen as the Free State ( http://www.freestateproject.org) there are

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Star
On 3/14/06, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: Hey Everyone, Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph relational databases?I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS Access draws tables, or

Re: Question about rdesktop

2006-04-25 Thread Star
for just rdesktop *shrugs*~ Star

Re: The Debian Flamewar Strikes Back! (was: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora)

2007-02-27 Thread Star
is downright reasonable... Mandriva, Suse, and RH Workstation have been including them in their packages for... how long? Next on the adgenda... Gnome is so much better than KDE because... ~ Star ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

New Login in a nested Window and a month of aggravation...

2007-03-22 Thread Star
hope for bringing just one more simplicity to my meager desktop desires... any thoughts? And no, Tom, i will not switch to KDE ;-) ~Star ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: New Login in a nested Window and a month of aggravation...

2007-03-23 Thread Star
On 3/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I admit it! I have no idea what you're talking about! I use Xnest. And I have problems with Xnest, too. But what problems are you having? Maybe you can give an example of one situation which is causing problems for you...

Re: New Login in a nested Window and a month of aggravation...

2007-03-25 Thread Star
Distro, Xorg release, video HW on this box? If ATI or NVidia, stock or proprietary X drivers? If the latter, what happens with the former? I'm running Debian Sid x86_64 with X.org 7.1.1 I am currently running with the nVidia drivers 1.0-8776 on a GeForce 7600 GS. After seeing your note, I

Re: New Login in a nested Window and a month of aggravation...

2007-03-25 Thread Star
After much of the playing I've done today, and discovering that it really ~is~ mouse movement and not the clicks that aren't registering... it appears to be a documents and not yet fixed issue (at least in my distro) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412486 Thanks for the tips!!

Re: MS Services for Unix permission problems

2007-04-27 Thread Star
requirements are minimal. I'm thinking that it ~may~ be necessary to give full permissions to the Everyone group or anonymous or some such. ~ Star ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

[OT] Network In Flight data sizes

2007-07-24 Thread Star
appreciated. ~ Star ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Woot! OOXML nogo!

2007-09-05 Thread Star
On 9/5/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/5/07, Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The process isn't over. I expect the process will never be over. -- Ben Sure it will, once it's officially recognized as a standard and there's no one else to buy off. ~ *

Re: a simple question about grep

2007-09-06 Thread Star
I want to pick up all lines starting with * but no INDICATOR followed. I'd double-grep it, but i'm not infront of a *nix box to check grep -i * | grep -v *INDICATOR filename or something to that effect. -- ~ * ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Desperate for deb docs

2007-10-16 Thread Star
I need docs on how to build .deb files. I do not want docs on how to build .deb files for a debian distribution. I do not want docs on debian policy. I need to understand the intricasies of how to write control files (e.g., control, preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm, etc...) I found the IBM

Re: Desperate for deb docs

2007-10-16 Thread Star
a package on a different architecture or with some minor change? Thanks! Ty On 10/16/07, Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need docs on how to build .deb files. I do not want docs on how to build .deb files for a debian distribution. I do not want docs on debian policy. I need

Re: List header cancer (was: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....)

2007-10-18 Thread Star
The fix needs to be in the list, not the reader. -- Why does this whole conversation smell of being no more than an annoyance? Nothing in any of this is going to please everyone, and frankly, I like my quick *reply-all* *rant* *click send* steps (adjusted for this argument). If CCancer is

Re: Brother, can you spare a couple of SCSI SCA disks?

2007-10-22 Thread Star
The one wrinkle is that they must be 3.5-inch, 1/3-height, SCSI, 80-pin SCA (single connector attachment) disks. That's all that will fit the 1U server we have. I have a pair of Seagate 36g that I believe fit the bill here, though their size is also nuthin' to write home about... --

Re: Brother, can you spare a couple of SCSI SCA disks?

2007-10-22 Thread Star
That would still be twice what we have now. So if you're willing to part with them for a price we can afford (i.e., free), that would be *sweet*. I'd be willing to let 'em go for Fifty Nothings apiece, me thinks... I'll double-check 'em tonight to make sure that they're the correct

Re: Brother, can you spare a couple of SCSI SCA disks?

2007-10-22 Thread Star
Bugger! My drives are not the 80-pin connectors :( Anyone else? -- ~ * ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Gimme that old time interface...

2007-11-13 Thread Star
Okay, so it sounded better with the Bob Seger riff playing in the back of my head... Anyway: Lately, I realized that I was nothing short of bored with the two major-player options for the desktop interface. Sure, the convienience of everything just working and gobs of very shiny information

Re: [OT] Verizon/FairPoint sale (was: Comcast!?!?)

2007-11-15 Thread Star
Couldn't some combination of wireless and VOIP make POTS redundant/unnecessary? Doesn't it already? Not even a little bit. Drive north of Concord NH and it starts to fall out in waves. I noticed Verizon doesn't want to ditch its wireless service (a separate company). I'm assuming that

Re: [OT] Verizon/FairPoint sale (was: Comcast!?!?)

2007-11-15 Thread Star
If the keepers of the POTS up and vanished... wow. What chaos, what opportunity would ensue! People would still want (or think they need) their telephone service, but there would be no shiny-logo company to take their money. These would seem to be the perfect conditions for small-time

Python's making my head hurt...

2008-01-05 Thread Star
Okay, I'm not a python coder, nor do I really desire to be yet... I'm trying to run a system that uses Python pretty heavily, and while it's starting up, I'm getting an error just before it bombs... The error is ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/cPickle.so: undefined symbol:

Re: Python's making my head hurt...

2008-01-07 Thread Star
Thanks for all of the feedback! I haven't gotten it ~quite~ fixed yet, but I am well on my way. It appears to be an issue with how the C components of the game server are interacting with the python modules that it's calling, and of course, the one specific for the game type I'm trying to run

Re: Linux and Smart phones?

2008-03-23 Thread Star
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's getting about time for me to replace my cell phone... next month actually is when I plan to do it. So my question to the community is... Is there a (smart)phone out there that can sync ***EASILY*** with Linux

Re: low power linux PC?

2008-04-07 Thread Star
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Peter Dobratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I want to setup a linux server at home to do backups from various computers around the house. Amanda looks promising ( http://amanda.zmanda.com/ ) If you might be contemplating letting the workstations manage their

Re: low power linux PC?

2008-04-08 Thread Star
I've got a set of the Western Digital 'Green' drives coming in tomorrow (whoops...today now): 8.5 Watts - only 5400 RPM though (so I'm expecting to cache aggressively). I'm trying to build a quiet, powerful 1U server so every Watt counts in keeping the fans slow (quiet). We'll see,

[OT] - bad bad humor

2008-04-30 Thread Star
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems Go to the Feature Compairison... Note the last feature column. -- ~ * ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Alternatives to Comcast

2008-05-20 Thread Star
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Various things Comcast is doing is driving me away. They used to be decent, but now they are horrible. Whats driving me away: Internet: Blocking port 25. Yes, I could illegally hack my modem, but its not worth it. There

Re: Ubuntu network configuration

2008-10-09 Thread Star
one client, I'd go ahead and turn it off. -Bruce ~ Star -- ~ * ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: boot HDD into RDP client

2008-12-09 Thread Star
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Pam McLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with a K-12 school district in the Lakes Region and am looking for an independent consultant who might be able to spend a few hours converting an old PC into a thin client. Glen Page referred me to this group. I would

Re: Ubuntu and Kernels

2009-03-20 Thread Star
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:  I've been using Jaunty for a few months now, and I've noticed that my grub list is getting *quite* lengthy as new kernels are released. In order to reduce the kernels, I need to manually uninstall all of the old kernels

Re: OT: green vehicles (was: Power management)

2009-07-28 Thread Star
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Alan Johnsona...@datdec.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Bill McGonigleb...@bfccomputing.com wrote: On 07/25/2009 08:44 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: But again, if I'm buying new?  Yes, Prius, Prius, Prius. Isn't the nickel mining an environmental and

Re: Silly DNS question

2010-01-22 Thread Star
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:  Is an _ allowed in a DNS name?  I didn't think so, and my home DNS proxy doesn't think so, but other networks seem fine with it. http://www.thingiverse.com/image:8662  Above is an example, where the image is stored

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Star
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  There is definitely a chicken-and-egg problem when it comes to games on Linux.  Game publishers don't target Linux because there are few There have been a couple of great releases specifically targeting Linux as a

Re: What Language for a kid

2015-12-23 Thread Star
To go against the grain a little here, I'd probably recommend starting with something a little more touchy-feely, to see if the interest persists. Start with scratch, it's available for everything, except maybe my toaster, but it's a little old. If the building/seeing keeps the interest then move

Re: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

2016-07-07 Thread Star
I've used the dental-floss trick, well, actually, thin fishing line. It worked well enough without the alcohol, it was just a slow, steady process. On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:06 PM Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to

CISSP Study Groups in Southern NH?

2016-01-28 Thread Stephen “Star” Jones
I was wondering if anyone was aware of any Southern NH area CISSP study groups, or if there was any interest in maybe putting one together. I’ve asked the Googles, but thought some good actual experience or knowledge would be of value too. ** Backstory  Working in a company that’s been pinned