RE: Stepping down as admin, leader, etc

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
of the day. Linus makes a call, right or wrong. Thats how many things need to be. Puts to an end allot of time wasting quagmires and just get on with work and progress. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Systems Administrator Jacksonville Linux Users Group

Re: Wednesday's meeting agenda

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
that. Just like the domain name. You typically can't have many contacts, and if a contact can't be reached. You have problems, just like the ones I ran into with the domain name a month or two ago. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com This message

Re: Wednesday's meeting agenda

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
to Xen or any VM platform. Its just a tarball of a Gentoo Linux system, less a copy of portage, and a kernel. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific

Re: Wednesday's meeting agenda

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
is meeting as his place of employment when then FCCJ now FSCJ kicked us out of the ATC because we did not have money to pay for insurance. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive

Re: Sponsored meetings

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
like that easily if at all. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org

Re: After meeting meeting

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
. But these things are up to the group. Not like I will be participating much in person moving forward. So really some what moot to me. Just passing along some food for thought. :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: Sponsored meetings

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 17:45 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 17:25 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: I might have read wrong, and if so please disregard, but it seems like JaxLUG's meetings are sponsored, complete with food. Bad idea. Maybe, that was my idea, and let

RE: Wednesday's meeting agenda

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
of the domain name ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe

RE: Wednesday's meeting agenda

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
contacts for the domain name, and of those two are legal owners. I am not one of those legal owners, which I could have made myself the owner. I consciously chose not to, since it was not discussed by the group, and its not mine. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian

RE: Wednesday's meeting agenda

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
more about technical matters. Its very sad this list seems to get most active on none technical matters. Which is not the intention. The twitter thread I started, it was off topic, and that was my mistake I admit guilt and accept blame there. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http

Re: Sponsored meetings

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
opinions. I would hope, and I know, that if I was doing the same thing people would call me out as well. I would expect nothing less. They have, but most will just be silent. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: Sponsored meetings

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list

Re: Sponsored meetings

2011-07-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr

Re: Facebook

2011-07-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
these things. Right now I have quite enough stuff to do, and thus far most times doing things because others are not. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l

RE: Facebook

2011-07-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
with the distro, etc? That all amounted to more work for me, and I elected to keep things simple and just doing it myself, less work for me. But if others want to take that on. I can provide an image of the VM and can do what ever from there :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http

RE: Facebook

2011-07-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
send out a vm image. I can easily hand things over to another :) One of my favorite quotes I've always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew, and then chew it. -William DeMille Hope your hungry ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Food sponsor

2011-07-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
The JaxLUG will need a food sponsor for the July meeting and future meetings. If there is to be free food and refreshments at JaxLUG meetings. My company will no longer be sponsoring food or making any efforts there. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian

Stepping down as admin, leader, etc

2011-07-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
not want to discuss any of this any further. I have done more than my share, and really just want to be done with it all and move on. You won't be hearing anymore from me on the matter, and likely any others :) Thanks its been a hoot! -- William L. Thomson Jr. Systems Administrator Jacksonville

Re: Facebook

2011-07-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
part, though clearly is not the same, and no Q A. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com

July Meeting Announcement

2011-07-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
JaxLUG July 2011 Meeting When: Wednesday, Jul 20th 6:30pm Where : Peak 10 Topic : PHP for Systems Administrators Synopsis: Setting up PHP for your needs (Oracle, MSSQL, LDAP, SSH), PHP scripting for web and CLI,

IRC was - Re: Facebook

2011-07-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
. At a minimum people are just casting out their own personal opinions, showing a lack of experience, and any research as to how IRC is used and/or the importance of IRC in 2011. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: IRC was - Re: Facebook

2011-07-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
else where. Man I am a fool :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org

Re: IRC was - Re: Facebook

2011-07-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 15:08 -0400, Paul Tiseo wrote: On 7/13/2011 2:44 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: It really shows and says quiet allot for so many in this area to comment negatively towards IRC. Everytime I get a modicum of interest back in JaxLUG, I can count on William to totally

Re: IRC was - Re: Facebook

2011-07-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
things, but mostly for community interaction. Thus channels, and being in them. Otherwise you can just log into an IRC network, as you do any IM network, Yahoo, AIM, GTalk, Skype, etc. Chat is chat, nothing more nothing less. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian

Re: IRC was - Re: Facebook

2011-07-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
or something and everyone in the room is beneath you. Take it how you will. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http

Re: IRC was - Re: Facebook

2011-07-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 17:16 -0400, Paul Tiseo wrote: On 7/13/2011 3:25 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Why don't you step up and do something rather than come against those doing it all, for what benefit or gain? Participating in discussion (rather than killing it) is doing something

Re: Facebook

2011-07-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
doesn't employ strategies like that for the most part, its all or nothing, like the iCloud. The ibuzz thus far is Google+ will do to Facebook what Facebook did to Myspace. Till something else comes along, and trends and times change again :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http

RE: Facebook

2011-07-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
. To increase their own account creation numbers and such. I have seen many sites do things along those lines ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual

RE: Facebook

2011-07-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
as a topic. Using an old tried and trued social medium. Though no bots logging activity in there, so no archive. Maybe a JaxLUG members should make a bot for the JaxLUG IRC channel to log to the Wiki or else where. Then again that only helps if people show there. ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian

Re: Who created the JaxLUG Facebook page

2011-07-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
is still adding features to crush Facebook, but Google+ has not been officially or publicly released. So not more JaxLUG Google+ till we can actually. Unless someone can get the JaxLUG an invite and page. Then go right ahead and knock yourself out :) Plus it up -- William L. Thomson Jr. Systems

JaxLUG Google account was - Re: Who created the JaxLUG Facebook page

2011-07-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
for exclusive purposes ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Systems Administrator Jacksonville Linux Users Group - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml

Re: Facebook

2011-07-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:32 -0400, Donald wrote: The first rule of Jaxlug is not to talk about Jaxlug. Excellent, and thats why there is no archive or recordings of meetings. So much for streaming them ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

RE: JaxLUG Google account was - Re: Who created the JaxLUG Facebook page

2011-07-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
value which is subject to opinion, not factual analysis. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail

RE: Facebook

2011-07-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
to be without Facebook and Twitter :) Domain ID:D28121985-LROR Domain Name:JAXLUG.ORG Created On:30-May-2000 18:20:06 UTC -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http

Re: postgresql return code

2011-07-05 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
for success. End of day, a sql statement that returns nothing is not a failed query. Thus any command line sql statement should return 0 unless the sql statement fails to execute. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Topic and presenter for July

2011-06-28 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
one on xtables earlier this year. We can revisit firewalling, maybe package analysis with tcpdump and other things. Though other topics and presentations are welcome as always :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: Topic and presenter for July

2011-06-28 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 15:59 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Its that time again, seeking a topic and presenter for July. We have August taken care of already, Kevin Johnson is scheduled to do a presentation on Snort and Base. We might need to do another security related presentation

Re: Topic and presenter for July

2011-06-28 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
. But some database do not like seeing strings when they are expecting a numeric values, others don't care. But you have other options with numbers as previously mentioned. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: Topic and presenter for July

2011-06-28 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
thats all :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe

Cryptographic hash function was - Re: Topic and presenter for July

2011-06-28 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
hash at this time is SHA-2 family, till SHA-3 is finished being developed and released. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 2. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/836068 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2 -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian

Re: meeting tonight

2011-06-23 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
for coming and for the good discussion. And thanks again for presenting and giving us a topic to for discussion. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l

Re: June meeting tomorrow night NOT tonight

2011-06-22 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
to everyone, not just me :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml

June Meeting Tonight

2011-06-22 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
JaxLUG June 2011 Meeting When: Wednesday, Jun 22nd 6:30pm Where : Peak 10 Topic : Configuration, Security and Detection of IPv6 under Linux Presented By: Johannes Ullrich with SANS http://jaxlug.org http://jaxlug.org/index.php/Peak_10

Re: Fwd: warning from list@jaxlug.org

2011-06-21 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
in logs to see why Steve got a warning from the list about undeliverable emails. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Systems Administrator Jacksonville Linux Users Group - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed

Re: June meeting tomorrow night NOT tonight

2011-06-21 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
... -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr

IPv4 address blocks exhausted

2011-06-20 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Exhaustion_of_IPv4_addresses P.S. Interesting that the ceremony was held in Miami of all places. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info

Re: Presenter and topic for June

2011-06-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
, then it will be on the 3rd Tuesday the 21st. Otherwise if the presenter comes through, it will be on the 4th Wednesday the 22nd. I will make an official announcement ASAP once I know more :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: Presenter and topic for June

2011-06-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:28 -0400, Gene Cronk wrote: I can probably have something together on PHP for the July meeting. That would be great, pretty sure Kevin Johnson is going to present on Base and Snort in August. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian

Re: Presenter and topic for June

2011-06-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
presenter comes through and we meet on the 22nd. Stay tuned, hope to find out today or tomorrow at latest. I was being silent till I knew one way or the other, so much for my silence. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: Presenter and topic for June

2011-06-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
wiki and make it official :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org

Re: Presenter and topic for June

2011-06-13 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
! -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr

Presenter and topic for June

2011-06-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
will be presenting in August, on Wednesday August 17th. So still have to get presenters and topics for June and July. Any volunteers? -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http

JaxLug.org domain name expired

2011-06-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
this renewed ASAP before we lose the domain name to squatters... -- William L. Thomson Jr. Systems Administrator Jacksonville Linux Users Group - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: JaxLug.org domain name expired

2011-06-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 16:42 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Anyway the list is still some what working, but seems the website is not reachable due to the domain being expired. That may effect others ability to post to the list. You can add a host entry for the mailing list and wiki

Re: JaxLug.org domain name expired

2011-06-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:20 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: All should be back to normal in a few hours up to 24 hours. Things should be back to normal now, short of some dns servers still propagating. Also turns out another JaxLUG member is listed on the domain name as well. Just

Re: Linus update's to kernel version to 3.0.0-rc1 to announce feature... nothing! Yay!

2011-06-03 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
support http://blogs.oracle.com/wim/entry/linux_mainline_contains_all_the -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS

Re: AIX n00b questions...

2011-05-31 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
in Mandarin, off Loretto. Nothing special, just low end mice left over from machines passing through ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug

Re: Linus update's to kernel version to 3.0.0-rc1 to announce feature... nothing! Yay!

2011-05-30 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
to version 3 of the kernel. Makes me wonder what kernel version Microsoft is on for Windows ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual

Re: Infragard

2011-05-18 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
an advisory one on an event they were holding a year or so ago. I still have to show to a meeting and submit my membership application for background review and such. They have a formal membership, though I believe anyone can attend the meetings. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http

RE: Linux hardware... OK, maybe not

2011-05-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
the fire entirely, because it started again before morning and this time leveled the house. It was either arson or a kitchen fire. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive

RE: Linux hardware... OK, maybe not

2011-05-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
if they are flammable but it tasted horrible and dried my mouth out like a prune for about an hour. Thats funny you tried to ingest it before you tried to light it on fire. Then again we drink some fluids that are highly flammable, wonder which came first, drinking or lighting :) -- William L. Thomson Jr

RE: Linux hardware... OK, maybe not

2011-05-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
for them to observe vs learning the hard way themselves. Though next time might choose a safer form of entertainment. But hey even I got a good chuckle out of it, so the entertainment value continues to grow :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: New hardware! Woohoo! What to do with it?

2011-05-16 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
across this project which is rather interesting. Can manage Xen, KVM, and other things. http://www.openqrm.com/ -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l

Bash script using ffmpeg converting flv to mp3

2011-05-16 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
} ffmpeg -i ${file} -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 192k -vn ${file/.flv/.mp3} done -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed

May Meeting Tonight

2011-05-16 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
JaxLUG May 2011 Meeting When: Tuesday, May 17th 6:30pm Where : Peak 10 Topic : Fun with Thumb-Drive RAIDs Synopsis : Linux software RAID using USB thumb drives Presented By: Robert McKennon http://wiki.jaxlug.org

Re: FU-Verse was - Stupid openwrt...

2011-05-15 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
rather than it being for someone else. There is allot to be said for that, and again sometimes that value is not monetary, but still has value ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: U-Verse was - Stupid openwrt...

2011-05-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
, having been a customer for over 8yrs. But then again Att did not impress me at all when I first moved to Jax and got Business ADSL service from them. Which I got better speeds when I switched to Covads ADSL. But eventually went to Cable and haven't looked back since, till recently. ;) -- William L

Re: Fwd: U-Verse was - Stupid openwrt...

2011-05-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 18:00 -0400, Bryan Price wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 4:54 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. w...@obsidian-studios.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 16:47 -0400, Paul Spicer wrote: I originally went with the 3mb plan because it was cheaper than the regular ATT DSL

Re: Fwd: U-Verse was - Stupid openwrt...

2011-05-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
is not unlimited, at least not with regard to data. They don't have a cap at this time to my knowledge. But will throttle you back to slower speeds once you use so much. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

RE: Fwd: U-Verse was - Stupid openwrt...

2011-05-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
to start lobbying for change before 2025 -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list

Re: FU-Verse was - Stupid openwrt...

2011-05-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
that company might decide to do. Yes and know, unless your privy to whats coming down the pipeline. It seems Att is keeping things pretty separate and isolated. The on Att tech was complaining about how much better the U-Verse techs are treated compared to others It was pretty funny :) -- William L

Re: FU-Verse was - Stupid openwrt...

2011-05-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
to know its even you, could be someone hijacking your email, since not pgp signed etc :) Much less this is a learning medium for all. This should not be used against anyone for any reason or another. That's just ill spirited and unnecessary. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http

Re: FU-Verse was - Stupid openwrt...

2011-05-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
! :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr

Re: Stupid openwrt...

2011-05-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
. Why is that I wonder? I highly doubt they are not using and customizing FOSS stuff for their needs. But is very much an assumption and borderline conspiracy theory material, acknowledged! -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

RE: Hobbyist or professional

2011-05-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
for professionals and the like. It all depends on interest and involvement from the JaxLUG members :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2

Re: Hobbiest or Professional

2011-05-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
stuff. So don't count us out on that either. I think its a given most hobbyists are interested in what the pros are up to. Question is are the pros interested in what hobbyist are up to. Ideally its a mix of both :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Changing meetings to third Wednesday

2011-05-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
anyone a last chance to speak up now. If changing to the third Wednesday of the month will not work for them, please respond to this post ASAP. Otherwise we will switch from Tuesday to Wednesday come June or July at latest. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian

Re: Hobbyist or professional

2011-05-05 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
:) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr

Topic and presenter for May

2011-05-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
instructions to the wiki home page regarding meeting presenters, and food sponsors. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed

Hobbyist or professional

2011-05-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr

Re: Hobbyist or professional

2011-05-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 17:05 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Really good movie to see, the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Funny I mentioned that movie based on the subject/topic of the post. You will see how professionals at Xerox discounted their own creation, the mouse Thats how Apple

Re: For unix admins...

2011-05-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
log and/or output to a file and create a report based on that data. That hopefully will suffice, depending on what they are seeking in a report showing the medium has been wiped of any data. 1. http://www.dban.org -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian

Re: Hobbyist or professional

2011-05-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
types interact to share knowledge, experiences, and other things. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http

Re: Hobbyist or professional

2011-05-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
am not sure pressure always delivers good with value. I think passion, paid or not, tends to deliver more good with value. Than pressure or most any other means of motivation :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

April Meeting Tonight

2011-04-19 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
JaxLUG April 2011 Meeting When: Tuesday, Apr 19th 6:30pm Where : Peak 10 Topic : Linux Social Gathering Synopsis : Social gathering to discuss Linux and technology in general Presented By: N/A http://wiki.jaxlug.org

Re: April Meeting Tonight

2011-04-19 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
regarding technology. Same should apply to meeting presenters and topics. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http

Re: April Meeting Tomorrow Night

2011-04-18 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
a presentation on Base and Snort. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml

Re: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-03 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
like System76 make sure they are virtualization friendly. I had an IBM Thinkpad with a Core 2 Duo processor that contained virtualization extensions in 2007. Ran KVM without issue. That was 4 years ago. What laptop do you presently have now? What OS is that running? -- William L. Thomson Jr

RE: Open router [WAS: Re: OpenPandora - Linux gaming handheld]

2011-04-03 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
things for you to resell, based on your specs etc. If you provide them with software, they will slick the stuff for you. Talked to them several times at Linux World. http://www.mbx.com/ -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
and the OS really wants you to have swap/page file, or what ever term they are calling it these days :) 1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/24/479 -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

RE: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
that to a certain size or making it small, would increase performance. But that does not sell new beefier hardware :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http

RE: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 15:03 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Besides, I hadn't done my homework on that filesystem so I stuck with the familiar ext3. I like to make educated choices, but sometimes don't feel like educating myself. Filesystem specifications are fairly dry reading

Re: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
+Performance -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe

Re: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
liability and requires the system to need things like a rescue disk to recover the system. Not to mention some to supply that rescue disk. Unless you leave one in every machine :P -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com

Re: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 16:27 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 16:13 -0400, Kyle Gonzales wrote: That's what a rescue disk is for. Much simpler than breaking out and maintaining different partitions on your system. Not when your dealing with remote machines. Remote

RE: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 17:00 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 16:52 -0400, Patrick Martin wrote: I would think that the TRIM support for such devices would be be the main driver. Those devices store data more like SSD wouldn't they? I am not that familiar

RE: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 18:39 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 15:03 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: ext4 is rock solid, just as any ext file system has been in my experience. I am switching to it across the board

Re: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
level 0 backup in hand, just in case ;) Time is of the essence when your dealing with recovery :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w

Re: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
a statement that LVM should be used for all partitions. You could you say all but /boot, or most partitions :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug

Re: Adventures in Linux

2011-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
there is a time and place for its use. It is not a one solution for all things, and that approach can cause problems. Clearly it has for people, otherwise documents would not exist suggesting to do things other ways. Much less first hand experiences with systems that won't boot. -- William L. Thomson

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