[OCLUG-Tech] SPARCserver 1000 power supply

components need replacing. Am I too hopeful in thinking there might be a spare PS in Ottawa? The machine is 1993 vintage, and most such machines have been recycled long ago. Thanks, Rick -- Rick Leir rick (at)leirtech (.) com 613 828 8289 O 613 878 7870 C http://blinkmonitor.com

[OCLUG-Tech] colocation

On 30/11/2011 10:12 AM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: Or other suggestions for colocation facilities?? Talk to Josh Vautour for hosting in Ottawa, he has an excellent business. http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuavautour -- Rick ___ Linux mailing

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] cvs, svn

I like Mercurial. Joel Spolsky has done a tutorial http://hginit.com/ at hginit.com. On 14/12/2011 7:51 AM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: I was about to take a look at cvs,svn,git,rsync ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

On 19/01/2012 3:10 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: the actual capacity of the SD card was noticeably less than advertised. From wikipedia: All SD cards incorporate a digital rights management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management (DRM) scheme. Roughly 10% of the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] DNS

On 05/05/2012 12:00 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: Does anyone know of any affordable DNS services like Zoneedit at 151 Front Street or elsewhere, with low latency to Ottawa ISPs/clients? I need a I like OpenDNS for many reasons. I have not checked the latency. cheers -- Rick

[OCLUG-Tech] Supercard linux

I googled Supercard linux and found a post from 2007 saying that it would work in Wine. My wife has an idea for a computer project and her all time favorite software was Supercard on her Mac At Work. She is now equipped with a PC laptop running Kubuntu. Is there any good Linux software that

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Digest, Vol 92, Issue 9

On 17/08/2012 12:00 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: ARM box running Linux on a fast ARMv7 with SATA support and GigE NIC interface? ATMV8 would even be better but really scarce. I am mostly interested in using it as a server.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Bluetooth USB

Get a PCI USB card. There are some kicking around at surplus stores. On 25/08/2012 12:00 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: I need to get a gadget that connects the header to a USB socket. I was thinking of building it but I went to Active Electronics and a USB socket is $9.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] monitor os

Hi Peter Nagios. For example, here is the iostat plugin: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/Linux/check_iostat--2D-I-2FO-statistics/details And thanks for the fridge -- Rick On 12/07/2013 12:00 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: The tool would collect the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] suse usb stick

Hi Rob Disclaimer: I do not use SUSE, so take this all as hints only. I am assuming that you booted from the USB stick. You are looking for a text file named *.desktop possibly located in /usr/share/kde4/templates/.source or $HOME/Desktop The .desktop file would contain the name of the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] install centos 6.5 on USB

On 30/12/2013 12:00 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: i'm given a choice of where the install image is, so i select NFS directory, at which point i see simply Waiting for NetworkManager to configure wlan0 ... and ... There was an error configuring your network interface. I used HTTP

[OCLUG-Tech] RHEL/Centos compatibility

Could it be the NIC giving you trouble? It would need to support PXEboot. If so, you would just add a PCI NIC. But the onboard LAN should work fine. Do you need to enable PXEboot in the BIOS? I found it difficult to install Centos from USB key. But a DVD install should work fine.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Digest, Vol 111, Issue 5

On 08/03/2014 12:00 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: i got the attached -- a proposal for a new linux firewalls book (with the identifying preamble removed). i'm going to go over it this weekend, but i'm curious as to what others think -- if you were looking for a linux firewalls

[OCLUG-Tech] Re ant

Google includeantruntime. The first hit is an answer at stackoverflow that looks useful. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] intercept email

On 02/05/2014 12:55 AM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: If someone has an existing email mailbox specified by a particular email address, can anyone on this list imagine any easy way that people can intercept email sent to that address without knowing the person's password at the mailbox

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Digest, Vol 113, Issue 4

On 03/05/2014 12:00 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: if sending to certain domains. Which domains bother you? I find that Live.com/sympatico/hotmail (when receiving mail from me) is likely to tag my mail as junk if it is not sent via an ISP's mail hub.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Digest, Vol 119, Issue 2

On 02/11/2014 12:00 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: copy email sent through it using SMTP to the [Gmail]/Sent folder. Has anybody managed to do something similar with Postfix? Yes, Postfix also saves to the sent folder. My experience is with postfix's vmail support, with Dovecot

[OCLUG-Tech] Re windows in a VM

You could google 'windows update troubleshooter' and try microsoft's tool. Microsoft used to save some identifiers from your system such as MAC and hd serial and other hardware id's to tie the license to a machine. What happens if they do that in a VM? Cheers Rick On July 7, 2015 12:00:01 PM

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Trailing edge as-is shop

> TTE used to take back things that they can sell for cheap Yes, they recycle or resell electronics. All sorts of stuff. And if you are installing Linux on a budget you can get a core2 duo or similar PC for $100 - $200. Some servers are for sale too. Or a Playbook 32 anyone? On January 10,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] as-is

And you can point at a box, say 'how much is that with 4g ram and 160g disk', watch the bios at boot, and hand over a few 20's. You are taking a bit of a chance, and can end up with scrap metal, but it worked out for me. One of the guys there cares enough to match up the ram simms for me. Oh,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SSD wear

On January 13, 2016 7:56:59 AM EST, Spencer Cheng <spen...@aotera.org> wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2016, at 7:39, Rick Leir <rl...@leirtech.com> wrote: >> >>> you likely won't wear out your SSD >> I have been told not to worry about wearing out the SSD. &

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack

Hi JF, John This long document mentions OpenStack in seven places. http://www.ssc-spc.gc.ca/pages/dcc-rad-eng.html If your VMware is already up and running, then you might find it tough sledding to propose a multi-year project to implement OpenStack. Quicker with a few people who have good

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ubuntu install with Windows 8

There were problems with Ubuntu and Windows8. Perhaps you are seeing something related to this ( it is an old post, with newer comments at the bottom). I noticed this recently when I was installing Ubuntu along with Windows.

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG-Tech] a couple (simple?) systemd questions

> i really should know this stuff, but ... > 1) is there a way to make sure a service is the *last* service invoked when going to multi-user mode? Systemd is designed to run service inits in parallel wherever there is no prerequisite. If you reboot at the end of inits, .. loop! What are you

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Anyone know of an open source rack monitoring project?

> I am looking at possibly using 1-wire stuff with rPi to put together a > I did a fair bit of googling last night (over an hour) and could not Wikipedia mentions OWFS, 1_wire file system. Maybe that could be a starting point. Or the JavaButtons given out in 1998. -- Sent from my Android

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Server to host high school project?

Hi Rob, There are a few sites where you can try it out in the following list. I have not checked them myself. https://list.ly/list/euz-15-vulnerable-sites-to-legally-practice-your-hacking-skills On 2016-12-27 04:35 PM, Rob Echlin wrote: HiMy friend Bahman's son is working on a high school

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] need some advice on how to prune my current wiki so i can move it

Robert: You could do a select count (*) from table; for tables you think might be large. Or select * from table limit 2; to see the first two rows of a table and decide how 'heavy' a row is. Mysqlworkbench is good for browsing. And does the wiki have a control panel other than cpanel? Then

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] need some advice on how to prune my current wiki so i can move it

Of course you would do a backup before monkeying with it. Google "mediawiki delete old revisions" to find relevant extensions and features. On March 31, 2017 3:51:34 PM EDT, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > i'm in the process of relocating my domain crashcourse.ca and,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] looking for a new host for my web site for april 1

And the latest Fedora stuff, with lots of yet to be discovered vulnerabilities. Fun! On March 10, 2017 10:01:16 AM EST, Alex Pilon <a...@alexpilon.ca> wrote: >On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 06:44:25AM -0500, Rick Leir wrote: >> Your other option is that many list member

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] reconfigure laptop disk for linux?

Hi John You would be doing the change to extended for one of the partitions using fdisk or similar? Yes, risky, but the risk is all in your fingers. Can you practice on some other surplus PC? About the backup to removeable disk: I would prefer to use dd for this, just because I know it

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

How are dvd's for archiving photos? I have been betting on them. They would not survive a fire, but they are compact so you can send a copy to a relative for safekeeping. I suspect that they would survive flooding. Maybe we will still have dvd drives in ten years! Otherwise we will have to copy

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

Robert Amanda is built on some bash scripts so you can understand and modify it to your needs. We used it at Cirrus. Bacula might be a strong contender. Cheers -- Rick On February 22, 2018 10:33:24 AM EST, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > i'm prepping to teach 5 days of

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Digest, Vol 155, Issue 5

Alan IBM / Lenovo is supposedly supported by Redhat. Dell is a good bet too. Google would find you better info than this email list. But as Peter says, Ubuntu has a much better UI. Redhat is focussed on reliability, virtualization and enterprise server systems. Cheers -- Rick On December 22,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is there a FHS/LSB rationale for installing in /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin?

Robert Thanks for the 'nitpicky pedantry', I generally learn from these threads. This is from distant memory. Sbin means system binaries, implying that they are for sysadmins not for (l)users. The sysadmin can explore sbin utilities more easily when they are in a separate directory. Also, when

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what is the purpose of the "-w" option of "sysctl" command?

Robert I am not close to my console, so this is a guess.. What is in your /usr/lib/sysctl.d/00-system.conf file? Rick On March 14, 2018 7:23:24 AM EDT, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > just noticed something odd ... on my fedora 27 system, the man page >for sysctl reads